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From: wbm@freedom.stanford.edu (Wally Mann)
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Subject: SimCity Realism
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Date: 20 Jan 91 20:13:45 GMT
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I've been playing SimCity for only a little while, but
it seems that traffic doesn't act intuitively.

I played the Bern scenario.  Traffic congestion is the
problem and you have ten years to reduce it.  I spent
my ten years bulldozing roads.  Not replacing ... just
bulldozing.  Anywere the traffic was high, I blasted the
road without regard to whether it left some zone stranded.
Traffic got lighter and lighter ... AND NOBODY LEFT THE
CITY!  My popularity stayed high and I eventually earned
the keys to the city.

At other times I've tried to reduce traffic by building
multilane freeways (roads side by side).  This doesn't
seem to work.  You can widen roads until the cows come
home and it seems like traffic comes out of nowhere ...
like roads create traffic.

Just commenting.
Wally