What is the Best Public Transport in Cities Skylines & Why?

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Trying some new content on the channel, ranking the public transport methods that carry our cims around the city. These are of course based on my own experience with the game so if you feel like I have misranked something, stick a comment below! If you'd like to see more tier lists for Cities, please let me know :)

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[szymenxd]

Trams have one more huge advantage: they don't require special stations. You can place stops just on the tracks. I love them because they have pretty high capacity and also there are many options for placing them.

[jrm]

The one downside to helicopters is that it seems like every sim wants to ride on it, so you end up with these ridiculous queues for it but they only hold like 20 passengers. Then to compensate for it, you have to max out the number of helis on the line and you end up with an equally ridiculous conga line of helis waiting to make their stops.

[MrGunsnrosesfan]

"Cycling is such an overpowered mechanic"
As someone who lives in an area that actually has good cycling infrastructure (the Netherlands) I can tell you right now that people genuinely will cycle from one end of the map to the other.
with a 9 by 9 map and the pythagoras theorem we can determine that the largest distance is 12.7km, which we can multiply by 1.2 to take into account that it's unlikely that you just have a straight diagonal road, leading to a distance of 15.3km which is roughly the distance I cycled to school when I was 13. Granted, I did choose to go to a school that was further away (I was bullied in primary school and didn't want to be in the same class as any of those kids again. Spoiler alert: it didn't help, I was still bullied) and most of the route was over country roads rather than through a city.

So idk if you meant overpowered as in "this is unrealistically good" or not, but it isn't unrealistic at all. people will genuinely cycle large distances if given adequate infrastructure.

[dbclass]

Clarifications:
• Taxi stands do not serve as waiting points for passengers. They are waiting spots for idle taxis who do not have a fare yet, but still have work shift remaining. That way, taxis do not have to needlessly drive back to their corresponding depot. Passengers just simply stand on a pavement/sidewalk, make call, and wait for a taxi. They are difficult to spot, but these fares are shaded in the same color as taxi buildings in public transportation info view. They are commonly found near any intercity transport building (airport, harbor, Space Elevator, etc.). Note: taxis can receive fares enroute to depot or stands, then divert straight to the fare without having to reach reach the depot or stand.
• Cable car is a feasible alternative where congested roads can impact the reliability of buses, but not enough demand to warrant a higher capacity transit.
• Intercity trains will randomly pick a platform to stop to before they start their journey. Because of these, ALL platforms must be connected to outside rail connection.
• Numerous hub buildings have at least one built-in underground metro, including both variants of Multiplatform Train Stations. Unless there is another metro line, that underground metro station at 11:19 is unnecessary.
• Because cyclist are coded as pedestrians, they do not suffer congestion in the manner road and rail vehicles do.
• Prior to free update that accompany Sunset Harbor, metro is underground-only, 6-car consist, and capacity of 180 passengers. It is now 5-car consist, 150 passengers.
• Space Elevator is a public transport monument. It is essentially a ploppable (passenger-only) outside connection.

[analogbunny]

I'd bump up trolleybuses by one tier; they do rank lower than buses in most ways because of the infrastructure, but they also produce the least amount of noise. These are buses for suburban sidestreets. Just like ferries, they're fine but only have a very specific and narrow use case.

I'd also put trans at #1, although the biggest advantage for metros is that they almost always run at a profit. They're the only service that reliably does.

[janestarz]

Yes please, more of these!
I'd love to see a tiered ranking of the vanilla maps. We all love Murky Coast because of Palaven, but I'm sure you can tell us a ton of details about the maps that came with the game and its DLCs that I've never even realised.

[samueleveleigh]

My best experience with monorail has to be when i somehow managed to get so many people using them they were propping up the entire city financially. To this day i have no idea what i did but it sure made "new bezos" one memorable city.

[OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Hey guys,

I hope you enjoy the new content, let me know if you want to see more! I forgot to mention in the video I exclude tours & post service from this list since they're not really PT. Enjoy!

Egg,
xo

[clayd]

cable cars are incredible for crossing rivers, cims absolutely love them. If I have a big city thats dense on both sides of a river, I can drop in a cable car and get hundreds of riders a week no problem

[TangerineUnicornDesign]

You're so mean about blimps 😂 I can't deny they're totally rubbish for actual transport but they're brilliant for adding detail to your cities. So good for a tight circular line over a sports precinct or olympic park build and really good to simulate a sightseeing route as there aren't any actual hot air balloons. You can also re-skin them with some great workshop assets for sci-fi metropolis builds.

[DM]

Is cycling "massively overpowered in the game" or just massively under utilised (generally) within real life city planning?

Enjoyed the tiered video, but in future I'd mix it up a bit - ie not presenting them in D-S, but just working through them via whatever method (in this one probably unlock order), and slotting them in to their respective levels as you reach them, rather than reaching the final section with an "I guess you know where these are all going now then..." vibe.

[WilITaylor]

The default ferries look like Freshwater class ferries that operate in Sydney. But in real life they can hold over 1, 000 people!

[kreftan]

Im offended blimp was like father to me.

[doc]

I feel that the next evolution for the city builder would be a county builder, a city builder but on a county level which would bring in some regional transport systems into play like high speed rail and small municipal airports.

[tuesunpatate]

You should make an updated version of this video. There is many new types of trains and busses with the vehicles DLC and the Airport DLC.

[nekofromit]

I can think of one reason why you'd use trolleybuses instead of trams and that is if you for some reason own Sunset Harbor but don't own Snowfall

[Styrestian]

I really like Trolleybuses cause you can force the bus to go what direction you want without having bus stops at every block. They seems to go faster than regular buses, and sound pollution is low. 😄

Taxi stands are for the taxies, not for the cims. Cims call a cab from where they are (at home, job or store) Its a great way to get around. If you have enough taxi depoes, you wil see taxies waiting at the stands.

[TheSingingDisaster]

Great video! Don't really have the same feelings about mono-rail, I never find a right way to use them. Lovely to see some footage from Palaven as well!

[poelmeister]

I find blimps to be an essential part of the connection between the city and the ever present evil genius lair.

[MusicHarmony]

The S tier looks solid and i think trains could have made it to S tier if only the multiplatform train station can have a dedicated area just for external trains because its hard to guess which track will they use to land