PhinaryDivision

I ran out of residential areas, so I quickly built a neighborhood for some apartment buildings. Only after doing so did I realize I made a triple intersection I built. I'm trying not to demolish buildings when rebuilding infrastructure, so I made a quick fix to get traffic flowing that fit in the bounds of the existing buildings.

I've now got a grasp on most of the basic mechanics of the game, so it's time to get to the fun part: OPTIMIZATION!

The city I've been working on today is shaping up nicely, but I'm very quickly going to start having issues with traffic. I've managed to mitigate a lot with public transportation, but even so my intersections are BARELY handling the traffic I have. Once I fill out the rest of my skyscrapers and start adding in the further out apartments, I feel traffic becoming NIGHTMARISH.

I never played the first one, so I don't know what better features are missing. But I love this game so far.

I didn't realize how much TRAFFIC can be avoided with some mass transit! Airplane into the city plus a subway/tram system to get around!

I just started playing Cities: Skylines 2, and it's pretty cool. Seems like a good mega time-sink game. But oh man is managing traffic flow DIFFICULT. I'm beginning to understand how the AI behaves whenever it comes to types of intersections, like oh man is the computer bad with changing lanes at the last minute or what.

But what I'm working on right now is figuring out how to manage my larger traffic volumes. I've gotten a couple cities to get to 10k-20k population, but around that point I have the same issue with traffic flow, in that I don't know a space efficient way to distribute high volume traffic in my city on my roadways. I think the issue is I'm just getting too high of a population too quickly. I think I'm also making neighborhoods that are WAAAAAAAAAAY too large. How large do you all usually make your large apartment neighborhoods?

Edit: Okay so additional parking makes traffic MUCH worse. I kept thinking "oh man, this is a TON of apartments, so they all need parking for their cars!" If you put 10 underground parking garages next to it, hundreds of cars will spawn and swarm at you in droves, bloodlust in eyes.

In Cities: Skylines 2, I just learned that the demand suggestor for which distructs your city wants should basically be ignored. I had a city where less than 1/3 of all jobs were filled, and it was telling me to build a TON more job buildings.

Title is everything . . . I tried making intersections and diverted traffic elsewhere, and the townpeople cut through neighborhoods instead of my nice roadways!