
In this game, it’s the way to create arteries of your city going underground and not interrupting your road traffic. In real life, the metro is expensive and can’t be built on some type of ground.

I have a new detailed guide on metro here.

The late-game problem is that you will want to interconnect too many areas of your city. In the beginning, you just need to place a depot that spawns buses and start building lines that connect your residential areas with commercial zones, schools and universities, parks, and landmarks. But anyway they will remain the base of your city transport at all times.īuses are cheap and easy to manage in this game. However, as your city grows and your traffic increases you will notice that buses aren’t always the answer. When your city is small, it’s enough to have Cities Skylines bus lines only. I have a detailed guide for bus lines here, don’t miss it! Knowing these facts about Cities Skylines public transport hierarchy let’s proceed to the different kinds of transport. Long distances are to be covered by railroad, at the major train stations people should get a transfer to the metro which is good for medium distances and then they should be able to catch a bus to get to the needed point within a block. So, the speed and capacity determine which public transit option is better for this or that situation. Cities: Skylines Public Transport Hierarchy This brings us to the approach you need to use when choosing which public transport to use in different situations.

When a citizen has a choice between a train line and a bus line for a long trip across the huge city, he or she will choose a train because it travels faster. To avoid that you need to make all of these people going by bus (it’s better to have 30 people on one bus than in 30 cars) or even metro which even doesn’t interrupt your road traffic. When every citizen takes a car, a transport collapse occurs. When there are no Cities Skylines public transport options, they will travel by car. This City Skylines public transport guide is to help you with choosing the most suitable public transportation options in different parts of the city and provide you with some Cities Skylines public transport tips. At the same time, the huge variety of options makes it complicated to decide which is to be used where.

After Snowfall and Mass Transit DLCs’ release, it’s hard to ask for more in regards to public transportation options in your city.
