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Roads should also have the ability to be selected as “bus/tram only” or “pedestrian only” when building road transportation up to train stations. That way you can keep the main line traffic (AI cars) off of your small public (bus/tram) transport roads.
What is one of the great parts of this game is also its curse: towns automatically grow. In the early part of the game, this growth helps you direct your transport/cargo lines and you don’t really need to build any roads. However, late game is a completely different story. I have done some serious urban landscaping (destroyed most of the city to rebuild a more desired streets layout), but the computer will create roads automatically which dashes any hopes of directing traffic through a certain part of town (such as having a hub for train/tram/bus in one section and keeping all other traffic centered on a large grid or highway). The AI cars keep on using my roads designed for connecting my different transport systems (such as bus to train) and cluttering up the area until the AI deems it necessary to create an undesired road.
My suggestion is to be able to turn growth on and off (like an option toggle in the in-game options) or to somehow specify that a road segment should not be added to (such as selecting a tool called ‘Stand-Alone Street’ and clicking on the road segment as you would to upgrade a road or electrify a segment of track) to stop the computer from trying to create roads between your carefully orchestrated road system.
I also believe that adding turntables and buffers would keep the authentic theme of this amazing game!
