A lot of people have said that car-centric cities are the ONLY option in Cities Skylines 2. But that’s not entirely true. In this video, I’m going to attempt to build a CAR-FREE European City to prove it can be done.
But will I be able to make a city that truly has no cars, or will the game’s mechanics win out in the end?
In this video, we will attempt to build a walkable European-style city in Cities Skylines 2 with pedestrian roads and public transit ONLY to see if we can get it to function.
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You'd think after all of the updates in the first Cities: Skylines, in particular those adding bike lanes and trams, that it would have carried out to the second game. Heh, nice attempt either way!
well that sucks
Sadly the "European" style matches only with North Europe, but very poorly with the Southern.
Am I the only one who thinks that cars don't care where they are allowed to drive and where they are not? In my city, they just used the bus lanes and pedestrian roads even though they could just use normal rodes where they are allowed to drive.
Awesome! I hope it will get easier to build carfree cities. My dream for a game is not to just build bigger roads and have more cars. But I failed to do so (but not with unlimited money)
CAN DONE?
My questions is when building this did you end up with a car graveyard somewhere?
I have been wanting to build a city like Amsterdam for many years. We really need more bicycle infrastructure in the game.
Great job!🫶
where are the BIKES ?
You can tell city skylines was made by american's, because they literally can't fathom a society without cars.
What if I want to make a soviet city where cars don't exist?
Yeah…feels like the moders are the true developers.
I love this project, I've been wanting to do something similar but have refused to start with unlock all. Been planning to transition my current town into pedestrians only but doubt I have the energy for it
Could you disjoint the industry and the rest of the city? You connect highway to industry to allow the trucks and such. Then you add only walking paths and trams from the industry to the main part of the city so your cims can get across without any traffic coming.
nice video 🙂
I was not ready to hear ROAR so early in the morning for me and in a Skylines clip too…. I'll take it
the background music reminds me of tame impala
This looks really nice for CS2 but I still don't get how they could have released this game to the public at the stage it is in right now. None of the CS2 videos I've seen have made me want to play it.
Thank you so much for this video ! Can you explain how you managed to connect the little walkable island ?
Being honest the whole cars drive anyways thing annoys the hell out of me, like this isnt only a issue with pedestrian (not so pedistrian) roads but also a issue with like service and transport only roads. It makes trying to make a road purely for service vehicles and busses a impossible nightmare
I wish I could live there. Instead I’m stuck in American surburban hell 😭
It feels like Skylines is sponsored by BP and Enron or something.
you should play a bit with the brush strength and size when making trying to make the canales
I guess it would be cool to make a car-free downtown like many European cities, you can connect the downtown area only by footpaths and the surrounding suburbs can be regular city connected to the outside connections
This was my dream when I started playing the game, looks like way too much effort for a lot of work. Hopefully a good mod comes out that makes an Amsterdam-style city possible without wasting years of your life. Also, curved lots, or flexible shaped lots should have been in this game.
I turned a small portion of my cut to transit only and oh my god those citizens are so happy.
It would be nice if future DLCs allow to explore more car free solutions.
Its always sad to me cuz its tough for me to be able to capture the feel of my home country of the Netherlands, it would be great if we got stuff like bike lanes, actual european roundabouts etc
Love how helpful, nicely edited, and easy to follow your videos are. Thank you for sharing!
Name of the song ??? 1:51
And in 4:45 ?
Wow these songs are great 😊
I can't get that round rail thing to work 8:56
At one point in my city's development I needed to level up without creating a whole bunch of hastily-planned sprawl which doesn't fit the lore, so I created a tiny neighborhood on a narrow island about the size of an elementary school. To make use of every bit of space, i only zoned ld commercial/hd residential. The only street was the narrow alley around the perimeter which created a quay, two narrow covered bridges for entrance/exit at either end, and a path underneath the overpass which bisected the island. It accidentally became a car-free neighborhood except for service vehicles because nobody can park on alleys, which I take as a W.
I would wager you could create a similar concept by using mostly alleys in your city, plus occasional 4-lane streets so that you can fit trams down the middle. I don't find "pedestrian streets" suitable for most of my builds because they're too wide to allow for the building density I want.
I think that's fine. I mean, if the game didn't offer the potential for an at least almost car-free city, you would have to fundamentally question the game's public transport system. Otherwise, local public transport would not be able to effectively relieve congestion on the streets. Almost car-free is perfectly fine.
i feel like the smallest roads this game has to offer are literal highways
Adele is perfect❤❤
I live in a coastal suburb in the capital of NZ. I'd love to see electric double decker buses in the game. Do you have the steam or Microsoft version of the game? My PC has an i7-14700k, RTX 4080, 32GB DDR5, and 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD. Looking to build a city with european theme.
Dang, I only just learned about CS2 and I'm extremely disappointed that they didn't do multiuse buildings and walkable cities right off the bat. To me, that was the only thing missing from CS1. Not sure why they even did a sequel then
Just wanted to stop by and say great content on city’s 2 I bought a pc just to play the game (given that they put it on Mac) it has been enjoyable, you mention patience, this games is good at giving you especially when you are decorating with the trees or making quays
The mechanics cant make European cities anyway. The structure is very American in the end. European cities are more than some old style houses.
Hi. You don't need highway access to the services. They just need pedestrian roads.
I did a completely car free city where the only way to get in and out of the city is with trains. It all works fine, delivery trucks and service vehicles spawn and operate only inside the city.
It's a shame there's no way to make a city market in CS:II, would really allow you to make something European
insanely good music taste
I kinda stopped losing interest in the first game because I’d always start off trying to make a nice looking organically growing city without a grid, but always end up having to make grids anyway.
It does seem like it has improved a little, but it’s still quite odd how it’s difficult to make a European looking city in a game made by a European studio.
Are there mono rails or other electric public transport? Can you have parking inside a residential high-rise? Goods stuff,cheers.