Topic: SimCity DS help: Transportation?

[DAaaMan64]

Can I get some tips for transportation?  I am spending tons on transportation, but my traffic is still get worse, trains help temporarily but this isn't solving the problem.  How large should my residential areas be when they have road connected to them?  Could you be fairly exact on your tips?  Thank you guys!  I know it is n00b-ish to ask for help on a forum, but there isn't much out there for this game. Plus, the last SimCity I played was, SNES.

[18 Days]

www.gamefaqs.com

[Kairon]

I'd want to help but... the truth is I've NEVER figured out how to build a good city in simcity. The game pwns me... /sad

[DAaaMan64]

18 Days, the available faqs totally suck.

Kairon other than stuff the docs don't tell you about.  A couple of cities should give you enough experience to get through it.  I would just make sure to follow the rules with out breaking basically the mold the status bars suggest(I.E. build more residential areas), until you have a steady revenue.

[NWR_insanolord]

If your residential and industrial zones are separated, as they should be, you need to make sure there are multiple roads between them. All the transportation funding in the world isn't going to help if all the cars going between Industrial and Residential are bottlenecking on the 1 or 2 (or even with more, depending on the size of the city) roads between them. Make sure there are enough roads connecting the places in your city, make sure it never depends on just 1 road at any point, because that is what causes traffic. As for zones, you don't want them to be huge, but as long as any individual tile in a zone is more than 3 out from a road (meaning no more than 6 between roads) you should be fine.