The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Basic Transit in Cities Skylines 2 | UBG #3

New and Improved for the Economy 2.0 world! If you've just picked up Cities Skylines and are struggling to build a thriving city, I’m here to help!

In this series, I’ll help you build a thriving city, starting with the modest bones of a small town and slowly growing it into a megalopolis! Along the way, we’ll explore the game’s mechanics and I’ll share tips and tricks I’ve learned from my time with the game. I’ll also share how I design cities based upon my experience as a real-life city planner. This is an ongoing series that we’ll also use to explore new DLCs and Content Creator Packs as they are introduced to the game.

In today’s video, we’ll cover a number of topics including: Transit Hierarchy, Taxi Depots, Bus Depots, Tram Depots, Taxis, Bus Routes, Tram Routes, Bus Stations, and creating Custom Transit Centers. We'll dramatically increase the density of the city and add significant population as we attempt to demystify the process of putting it all together.

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CHAPTERS

Introduction - 0:00
The Basics of Transit Hierarchy & Why it is Important - 0:46
The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Taxis - 1:57
The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Buses - 8:16
The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Trams - 26:19
How to Maximize Ridership - 42:10
Landscaping - 50:49
City Tour - 53:03
Final Thoughts - 54:37

[thebearded_guardian]

I can tell the devs are from the generation of crazy taxi - look at how that bus was driving. An entire block of side mirrors ripped off cars then obliterating a family waiting at the bus stop

[horngeek]

0:39 as a bus driver, I had a legit heart attack at that swerve into the bus stop >_<

[swordman]

the grass on the side of the road that everyone has to drive over to get into the parking lot is driving me crazy

[superflip]

im probably the only guy who is excited for trolleybuses, I was raised around them, and it helps a lot in the realism of cities I builkd which are mostly hilly. :D

[_eighty]

...was at the beach this week and forgot sunscreen. Good thing I can watch this to help forget the pain!
Oh boy

[lamardoss]

The homeless bug got me last night. I did some rearranging to get room for an airport and suddenly my population was going down, even though all stats for happiness was great and not seeing abandoned buildings. Before seeking help to find out what was happening, I lost almost 20, 000 cims.

After finding out about the bug when researching and looking for a fix for a long time, I did find the "bye bye homeless" mod and that fixed it for me immediately. I'm back up to almost 150, 000 cims. That bug is a whopper and will look forward to it being fixed.

[JimAvgasser]

I’ve needed this video. My city always turns into a bunch of jumbled lines of buses and trams that have low usage. Thank you so much!

[lizzsigmon]

I really really REALLY love the UBG videos. Phil breaks everything down and explains WHY things happen in the game to help even experienced players make better cities.
And the music and the commentary and background sounds just really make me happy, OKAY!? 😄😄

[lamardoss]

Its all your fault I'm now addicted to this game and loving it. Lol. Thank you.

[S-_]

17:25 You can make invisible predestrians path, so pedestrians can actually use others path to go in the transit hub . Per exemple, they can enter from station services side, and you actually extended de surfaces . So, i think it's a good idea to make invisible predestrians path

[VaingloriousGaming]

I keep running into the same idea problems with bus stations (both sizes). 1. Busses eventually in a conga line waiting to get into the station but can't because pedestrians are crossing over the entrance (usually go walk into the bus station). This backs up all traffic around the bus station. 2. When that isn't happening, busses cannot exit the station because busses waiting to enter are blocking them. This, too, eventually leads to a long line of busses that block traffic, though it can be alleviated somewhat by using a one-way road. Ideas on how to avoid both of these issues?

[yiweizhao]

Have watched this video 3 times now. Really looking forward to the future episodes!

[raytbrown]

Thank you. For me, that was your most helpful episode. I really appreciated learning some of the "little bits" that I didn't know about the mechanics of the game's engine. Quite a difference these knowledge points will make. TY!

[luksamislavbarisic]

Please implement this change, the tram lines don t make sense and would be very annoying to use irl: combine the black and wight line into one and have a tram stop on the other side of the road where the bus station is (in the direction where you incresed the zoning dencity where the double tunnel is), but still have the stop behind the bus station for the direction towords the bus and tram depot. This will improve connectivity since passangers won't need to change trams that would kill ridership irl.

[bitmanagent]

Thanks Phil. You read my mind or my comment. I was really hoping you would cover this transit comment. I did some web research but wanted another perspective from a city planner.

[MateriaGirl]

This city of 8, 000 people has better and more extensive transit than my real life city with 60, 000 people...and my in-game city with 30, 000

[jorgerv]

Hey! Just one minor detail. In the transit hub you created, where the tram enters at both sides, you have tiny nodes near the big intersection. You were talking about making it pedestrian friendly, so I think removing unnecessary cross walks there would be a nice improvement for that. Those tiny nodes also lack big sidewalks (I think they still have parking but it is too small to work).
Amazing episode anyway. I'm really enjoying the series!

[mattpbone]

I generally never watch tutorials or anything of that nature, but I have watched every episode of this series because you are just so relaxing to watch. You're honestly the Bob Ross of City builders, keep it up!

[shaneintheuk]

Trams as light rail! I never knew that. Great idea and you can run them into historic districts too.

[psychorabbitt]

You want to talk about insane routing for busses leaving a bus station? When they built the main station in Worcester, MA about ten years ago they made it so busses could only just pull out and go straight if they're going north of the station. If they have to go east the turn out of the station and go into an adjacent roundabout and out. If they have to go west or south, they have to turn right and go ALL THE WAY AROUND the roundabout because the station is on a street with a median.