Is It Possible To Make A City Out Of Only Pedestrian Roads?

Welcome to a fun test build where we're going to try out some Cities Skylines science using the new Plazas & Promenades DLC! Can we convert a Tiny Town into a city using only ped roads? Lets find out!

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[patrickwang]

It's kinda crazy how perspectives change. When I see those standard roads in the beginning, there's no concern at all. Of course those roads are gonna be there, nothing special. Everything's completely normal. But when he changed them to the pedestrian roads, my first thought was, "Jesus Christ, how's this tiny community going to afford the maintenance on these massive. out of proportion walkways?!", even though in real life the maintenance on pedestrian infrastructure is much lower than for car infrastructure of the same size.

[apg]

Incredible! It seems like if you go slow, you can have an excellent walkable city with wall-to-wall zoning and the new high-density service buildings they have introduced with this expansion. I really wasn't expecting industrial to work so nicely. Wall-to-wall zoning would most likely ensure that the not enough workers problem is addressed as well.

[sarahducky]

I guess this proves to me that just because something CAN be done, doesn't mean it should be done. The suburb and main street commercial look fine, but I'm personally just not on board with pedestrianized industrial zones. Perhaps small sections of it would be fine, and pedestrian office or IT would be great. This was a mixed bag of build results, but a great learning experience. I still enjoyed every bit of it, because you tested this stuff for us, so we don't have to. Great job Egg.

[carstarsarstenstesenn]

This video was interesting for sure, it's so cool to see after all these years of the game being so car centric. More pedestrian experiments please!

[thargoff]

This is funny!
And the main lesson for me: the service buildings (like water treatment, waste collection, etc.) cannot be pedestrianized, everything else basically can be...

[thomas_bergkvist]

Nice little experiment - I'd love to see more about public transport hubs and the wall-to-wall specialisation 🤓

[jcosunshine]

Excellent experiment! I love the residential can be on these pedestrian roads, how cute is that? i'd love to see a transport hub done with these roads and the new transport assets, !!! Great work as always, Egg!❤❤❤❤

[geenicoll]

For a very simple DLC - it's created the biggest change to the game, Cities will never be the same again.

[konradcabral]

The pocket cars break my enchantment... if we needed to plan parking accordingly, that would be a challenge.

[isitanos]

Sounds cool at first, then you realize this removes all need for public transport, traffic management and any challenge the game had left really. And incompatibility with park/campus/industry DLC adds another layer of silliness... they could've used districts with a pedestrian policy, and boom, overlap with those would've worked but noooo....

[dbclass]

Traffic can flow a bit better by having that one-way system flow the other way around.

[AurioDK]

Never had a car, 8 km to and from work every day before I retired. My better half uses her bike as well to get to work, always worked perfectly for both of us. Public transportation is good where I live so the youngsters can get to school with no problems and we always fly on holidays, mostly Portugal as the destination. But this is Denmark, a lot easier to accomplish than in many countries I suppose.

[larkendelvie]

I'd love to see more on arranging service buildings -- for example is it better to spread them out? Is it better to have multiple Pedestrian districts? What is the affect of mixing district types? I love the experimentation.

[michaelw]

Very cool. This certainly can change the way the game is played. Kind of have to rethink a lot of things. Crazy how the land value shot up with the pedestrianization.

[TheAurgelmir]

I believe Factories, Parks and Universities will not work with Pedestrian, mainly because they use the same Zoning grid.
Which is a shame, especially universities would benefit from the pedestrian roads I think. Park areas too could get some cool builds with it.
Factories don't make sense to pedestrianize honestly, but it makes sense to put the service buildings there. (Even though it's a little illogical)

I'm personally looking forward to integrating this more into cities, how it's often done in real life, rather than going crazy with it.

[vexcarius]

Imagine the employees carrying those heavy cargos from the industry area to the service point! 😂😂😂

[fewcandy]

Great experiment! And good to see it all work so nicely 😄

[hustledude]

Do the old regular pedestrian paths connect well to the pedestrian roads? I have always wished you could connect an elevated pedestrian path directly into the sidewalk of an elevated road - can this now be possible through an elevated pedestrian road?

Also do the pedestrian roads connect well to the walkable quays?

[kfckillie]

Absolutely build a pedestrian city, metros, buses, monorails, trains and walking. Imagine the possibilities...👍👍👍👍

[Sweetcts]

I love your laugh, so much. "4000! Goodness me! hehehehe" <---prime example, hahahaha <3
This is pretty fun, and defo a nice new way to play w/ stuff