Just like you don't intersect a highway with a local road, intersecting a rail line with a road is not a good idea. They don't corner as well as metro so a long winding rail line will be slow, and under used. Use straight lines and wide curves so trains don't have to slow down. It's very fast (and awesome to watch) but like highways works best with a few rules. If buses are like collectors, and metro like arterials, rail is a lot like highways. Just like arterial roads, the metro system is your high capacity portion of the public transit hierarchy. It's fast, and works best with a few well placed out stops. They collect cims, bring them somewhere busier and then bring them back.Ĭims love metro. Think of buses like the collectors roads in a public transit hierarchy. The only occasion where you may need a second depot is if you build a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) where some buses are isolated from the rest of the road network.īuses make frequent stops and generally run a short route around a neighbourhood. That one depot will supply all the buses your city needs.
To start placing bus lines you need to build one bus depot. The overall point of a transit system is to bring your cims from their homes, to the places they want to go, which is shopping, school, shopping, and work, then bring them back home. About TransitIn this section you will learn how transit works, creating a transit hierarchy, along with some examples I have had success with.
