Train Station help

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:28:51 GMT, *****General put finger to keyboard
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>I have placed train and fright stations around my city and connected them to
>both roads and train tracks but they are not being used at all. Why is this?

Sims won't use trains that much, compared to other forms of transport
- they prefer subways and roads. Once you've got multiple connected
cities in a region, sims will use the trains to commute between cities
(and your tracks can get very congested across the borders if you're
not careful), but they tend not to get used a lot within cities unless
the geography makes them particularly attractive (such as being the
most direct link across a river or to an island).

Within a city, though, rail tracks really come into their own when run
through industrial areas and then connect out to neighbouring cities
(or Sim Nation, if you don't have other cities in your region yet) -
any industry which develops next to the tracks will send its freight
out by rail, which reduces truck traffic a lot. Put in a few freight
stations for the industries which don't have direct rail connections,
and you can almost eliminate long-distance trucking.

Mark
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"Mark Goodge" <usenet.DeleteThis@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:28:51 GMT, *****General put finger to keyboard
> and typed:
>
>>I have placed train and fright stations around my city and connected them
>>to
>>both roads and train tracks but they are not being used at all. Why is
>>this?
>
> Sims won't use trains that much, compared to other forms of transport
> - they prefer subways and roads. Once you've got multiple connected
> cities in a region, sims will use the trains to commute between cities
> (and your tracks can get very congested across the borders if you're
> not careful), but they tend not to get used a lot within cities unless
> the geography makes them particularly attractive (such as being the
> most direct link across a river or to an island).
>
> Within a city, though, rail tracks really come into their own when run
> through industrial areas and then connect out to neighbouring cities
> (or Sim Nation, if you don't have other cities in your region yet) -
> any industry which develops next to the tracks will send its freight
> out by rail, which reduces truck traffic a lot. Put in a few freight
> stations for the industries which don't have direct rail connections,
> and you can almost eliminate long-distance trucking.
>

I've done that and still my train sattion usage is at 0. It's not a matter
of train stations bieng used much, they're not bieng used at all.
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:24:58 GMT, *****General put finger to keyboard
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>"Mark Goodge" <usenet.RemoveThis@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>
>> Within a city, though, rail tracks really come into their own when run
>> through industrial areas and then connect out to neighbouring cities
>> (or Sim Nation, if you don't have other cities in your region yet) -
>> any industry which develops next to the tracks will send its freight
>> out by rail, which reduces truck traffic a lot. Put in a few freight
>> stations for the industries which don't have direct rail connections,
>> and you can almost eliminate long-distance trucking.
>>
>
>I've done that and still my train sattion usage is at 0. It's not a matter
>of train stations bieng used much, they're not bieng used at all.

Have you got Rush Hour, or just plain SC4? Without Rush Hour, the
transport figures are pretty meaningless anyway, as it simply wasn't
implemented properly in the game.

Mark
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