bus – Train Fever

What's the point of roads with Bus Lanes….

RickD — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:00:51 +0000

… When cars park in them for months on end holding up buses and ruining the players services. I’m sure its been suggested already but please make bus lanes exclusively for bus use, and allow overtaking of cars, otherwise they … Continue reading →

Bus / carriage line not working! Frequency is "–"

tore.kanstad — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:03:03 +0000

When I’m setting up a new horse line it sometimes won’t work. The frequency is –. And the bus(es) stands still at a bus stop. The bus says “No path”. As a result nobody is using the bus and I … Continue reading →

On The Buses

Javis — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:10:25 +0000

I treat my citizens well. Not only a first class train station to take them to neighbouring towns but also serve them with various bus lines so they can travel to their chosen area of the town. And back and forth too ! Then why the heck won’t they appreciate that and hop on them !!??

Oh, yes, sure they will, for a couple of years…. But then, all of a sudden, they start avoiding my buses like the plague. Like the’re something so pathetic about them you don’t want to be seen in them. Oh,yes, driving around in their expensive Cord’s causing the most terrible traffic jams, that’s what they love to do. Snobs…

I’m sure i’m not the only transport tycoon having trouble with bus finance turning from green to red and staying there but does anyone have a clue why ?….

At the start of a bus line people can’t wait to hop on it. Bus stops glogging up with passengers so i add another bus, maybe two. I setup the line from one bus station (at the train station) to another at the outskirts of town. Carefully place bus stops along the route at each side of the streets and select them. First one side of the streets followed by the other side so that i have a perfectly looking double line without any odd zigzags or loops. I do that for another area of the town as well.

Works great initially, busses full, all figures in the green, but at some point in time it goes all wrong while the town at hand has grown to more then 500. Also the buses haven’t got more years on them than 10. My 3 pax train figures are green (serving 3 towns), my truck cargo figures are green, *all* my bus figures are red in all 3 towns…

It’s 1942 ( there’s a war on…. could *that* be it ?….), i have about 19M in the bank and, not withstanding the bus problem, still counting.

Btw, my fav bus is that lovely cream and red 1950’s Mercedes. Great little model !

Curious to know if anybody else also has to deal with these snobby citizen as well. First they love the buses then they hate them. Is there a way to sort these guys out and get ’em back on the bus ??….

Any hints/tips highly appreciated !

Traffic problems in big cities

jorgenRe — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:14:51 +0000

I’m playing on a game at 2080 and ive been having great problems for the last 50-80 years because the traffic is so bad.

Because of that the freq of my bus lanes plummets to the ground and so i can follow on how good the traffic is by just looking on how much my main train line is doing. Some years it’s at 10-15 m pluss then others only 2-4 m pluss.

When i’m looking on the bus lines i see the buses are stuck in huge traffic congestion usually made because, well theres no signal helping the traffic to flow so the cars are driving like 4 – 5 at a time through a road cross then those in the other direction can cross. Also they tend to choose the closest route available instead of that big avenue(which they mostly only use 2 of 5 lines of) So basically traffic isn’t very efficient atm.

And also bus lanes don’t work :C IF they did then most of my lines would be turning huge profits at this moment of time because more people would have used the buses :/