I play my first Train Fever game (around year 1930, easy mode, small map, flat) and I have questions regarding roads that I can’t answer by myself. I have tried on THE INTERNET but without success, maybe you can 😉

– Is there any interest in upgrading roads from towns to other towns? Maybe cities grow faster?

– I only use tram and no buses, should I upgrade city streets?

– I saw that to ensure a factory to deliver goods to the city I want (actually not the closest one), I can destroy road access and it seems to work perfectly. This way the goods are not transported by road but use my cargo line. Any thoughts about this mechanism?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Just deleting roads to resources and factories is not enough for me.  I also have to make a new longer broken path, roads seem to grow back.    But if you make a long broken path, it works.   That is one of the 1st things I do, rearrange the roads to my liking.

to answer your question though: in situations where a road upgrade means travelling from town A to B is reduced to less than 20 minutes, i guess yes. the question is, how game defines where people go to work/for leisure and whether people from town a will be more likely to work/live in town b given a better infrastructure.

your second question: i d recommend upgrading your streets with tramtracks. traffic will substantially increase during the game

your third question: i destroyed a road to a city once in order to get goods frmo production site a to my train station b. yet production pretty much stopped completely. not too sure why though

1) Improving the roads could make the cities grow faster, but rather later in the game when there are enough people using their own cars for traveling (not before 1950). Much better is to use your improved roads for your bus lines between the cities. I am now playing on hard difficulty and these lines are making huge profits (0,5 – 1M/year each!). Do not just improve the old and crooked unpaved roads by replacing them with the ‘upgrade the road’ tool, delete them and rebuild them with better ones with less curves and not so steep slopes.

2) Upgrading the city streets is needed later in the game, when your trams get stuck because of the traffic. I am now not sure, if there are also some speed limits for the trams because of old and unupgraded streets…

3) Destroying the road will prevent the factory from sending the goods to the neighbouring town. I have never seen the game to rebuild any roads I destroyed. But, actually, this is counterproductive. If there are two towns in that region (one with your cargo line and one accesible without your help, each with demand for let’s say 40 pieces of goods), the potential of production for the factory is 80. If you destroy the road, you reduce that potential to 40, so the factory won’t ever produce so much and won’t also demand so much resources from the mine/forrest/oil wells. And you also have the resource line, right? So my suggestion is let the road be and just wait until the factory and the mine/forrset/oil wells increase their production enough. So or so you can never deliver more goods to the city than its demanded amount.

Yes there are speed limits, on the dirt roads outside the cities vehicles can go maximum 40 km/h
In the cities, there are limits because of curves and the type of road. Vehicles can drive only slowly over the old city roads from the 19th century.
But as then and in the 20th/21st Century, the modern roads, they have also limitations because of the size of the road.
So you can only achieve maximum speed with a vehicle on a straight, big 4-lane road with enough free space and no stops in front of the vehicle.
Thats why I don’t use the fastest vehicles in some cities, because they can never achieve their maximum speed and thus produce unnecessary maintenance costs.

Thanks a lot for your answers! It looks clearer now.

Just a remark, I guess players of train fever are quite interested in city builders. I just find it sad to have a fully optimized high-speed train network and dirt roads between cities at the same time 😉