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Poil posted:Yes! Cable lifts, suspended trains, canals with gondolas, those flat escalator things that run on the ground, segway trains and all kinds of stuff. My city won't be complete without an underground chairlift.
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MikeJF posted:How can they not be station like? I mean, I said metro had full stations as in a full platform, as distinct to light rail which are basically bus shelters. (Or when they're running on road as trams, often not even that. Just get off when the light is red) I just assume when people say station, they mean classic "stations" with buildings and sometimes parking. Many LIRR/Metro North stops have these, as do many NJ Transit stops. Subway stops here are usually just platforms with entrances/exits and sometimes a booth with a person in it, except for the bigger stops with multiple trains, which have all kinds of connecting tunnels and sometimes even have news stands in them (or even some full fledged retail shops which is very rare.)
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All this new stuff and still no new sirens. ToastyPotato posted:I just assume when people say station, they mean classic "stations" with buildings and sometimes parking. Many LIRR/Metro North stops have these, as do many NJ Transit stops. Subway stops here are usually just platforms with entrances/exits and sometimes a booth with a person in it, except for the bigger stops with multiple trains, which have all kinds of connecting tunnels and sometimes even have news stands in them (or even some full fledged retail shops which is very rare.) LIRR stations are just parking lots and platforms as well, they're just more suburban in style. Although the LIRR sucks only because every time a long islander makes a "change at Jamaica" joke it makes me want to bury a hatchet in their face.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 19:30 |
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On the subject of metros, here are some of Fishbus's excellent metro stations with multiple platforms: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=495018039
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 19:45 |
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I really just want a Chicago style elevated rail.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:14 |
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ShootaBoy posted:I really just want a Chicago style elevated rail. I want Wuppertal style hanging monorails.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:28 |
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suddenlyissoon posted:Has anyone tried to replicate the insanity of the Texas highway system? I just got back from my first trip to Austin & San Antonio and was completely blown away with how insanely different it was. I've found a few workshop assets but I'd like to see if anyone had any suggestions before I spend days trying to set it up and inevitably screwing it up. Koesj posted:Yeah... But yeah I tried to make a proper stack interchange in the asset editor and gave up because there was simply not enough room. Inverness fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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ShootaBoy posted:I really just want a Chicago style elevated rail. "Things never once spoken by people who have lived in Chicago."
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Inverness posted:There are no feeder roads. You mean frontage roads I've tried doing some 5-level stacks but fuuuck thaaat if it's not perfectly symmetrical. You've basically got to do a bespoke design every time, and my cities are hella throwaway. The asset designer can be okay for building blocks of interchanges, but I end up doing them from the ground up anyway.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 22:18 |
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xzzy posted:"Things never once spoken by people who have lived in Chicago." I did a tour of Chicago and was stunned at how crazy loud the el was, and when the tour guide said they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the hindered m hundred year old shakey riveted iron stuff, being from Dallas with an all-reinforced concrete elevated light rail system, I piped up and asked, "is it being replaced with a concrete version to cut down on the noise and corrosion issues?" They all looked at me like I was crazy. The el is the noisiest drat thing, holy poo poo, if you're within half a block of it while a train is passing by, it's so loud you can't shout over it. In 2015. What the hell. It's like Chicago peaked in 1927 and completely forgot to upgrade their transit infrastructure in the last century.
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Hadlock posted:I did a tour of Chicago and was stunned at how crazy loud the el was, and when the tour guide said they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the hindered m hundred year old shakey riveted iron stuff, being from Dallas with an all-reinforced concrete elevated light rail system, I piped up and asked, "is it being replaced with a concrete version to cut down on the noise and corrosion issues?" They all looked at me like I was crazy. A century of corruption does terrible things.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 23:30 |
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Hadlock posted:It's like
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 23:46 |
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What the hell is a bike lane anyway? I live in houston.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 00:47 |
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Anyone have any idea why the intersection editor appears to be completely broken for me? It wasn't working last month; I have since reformatted and reinstalled (for unrelated reasons) and done a full out reinstall. Even disabling all mods, you can click on this loving road until you're blue in the nuts and nothing ever happens. gently caress you, little road icon
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 00:58 |
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Fargin Icehole posted:What the hell is a bike lane anyway? I live in houston. It is a drizzling of sense on a sheet cake of madness.
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Hadlock posted:The el is the noisiest drat thing, holy poo poo, if you're within half a block of it while a train is passing by, it's so loud you can't shout over it. In 2015. What the hell. It's like Chicago peaked in 1927 and completely forgot to upgrade their transit infrastructure in the last century. I'll never forget walking past a rusty el pylon and noticing a last-painted date of 1976 on it. But that's the charm!
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 01:45 |
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You can tell Chicago never gets earthquakes.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 01:59 |
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Hadlock posted:I did a tour of Chicago and was stunned at how crazy loud the el was, and when the tour guide said they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the hindered m hundred year old shakey riveted iron stuff, being from Dallas with an all-reinforced concrete elevated light rail system, I piped up and asked, "is it being replaced with a concrete version to cut down on the noise and corrosion issues?" They all looked at me like I was crazy.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 03:06 |
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Man, gently caress you people, the El is one of our goddamned treasures here. And replacing it with concrete would involve ripping up basically some of the wealthiest parts of town, which ain't gonna happen. Nobody who lives here minds the noise.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 03:56 |
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xzzy posted:"Things never once spoken by people who have lived in Chicago." Hey where I'm from you're lucky if the bus stops within 2 miles of your place pal. I'll take whatever public transport I can get.
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smr posted:Man, gently caress you people, the El is one of our goddamned treasures here. And replacing it with concrete would involve ripping up basically some of the wealthiest parts of town, which ain't gonna happen. Nobody who lives here minds the noise. As someone who lives in Illinois and frequents Chicago, the reason the people of Chicago are not bothered by the L is because they have lived there so long that they have gone loving deaf from driving/walking/riding near or on it for so drat long. You don't mind the noise because you can't hear it anymore.
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Fargin Icehole posted:What the hell is a bike lane anyway? I live in houston.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 08:29 |
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This is the worst thing I've ever seen.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 11:25 |
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MikeJF posted:This is the worst thing I've ever seen. Kelly cartoons are a satirical feature from the satirical publication "The Onion". Airconswitch fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Airconswitch posted:Kelly cartoons are a satirical feature from the satirical publication "The Onion". Thank god.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 11:34 |
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MikeJF posted:This is the worst thing I've ever seen. beep boop
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 11:47 |
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That's not satire, that's Escape from New York! (Love the medieval castle cone on that guard tower)
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 12:49 |
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piratepilates posted:I want Wuppertal style hanging monorails. Seriously look at how rad this is:
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Airconswitch posted:Kelly cartoons are a satirical feature from the satirical publication "The Onion". Sometimes we get to learn about his life under the guise of a political cartoon. His dad left the family out of the blue one day, he was kicked out of the house and became homeless, he married a woman he hates and had kids that never talk to him, and now he's divorced and angry. Edit: A recent cartoon showed he wanted to make children's books rather than be a political cartoonist. You can see all of The Onion's totally real political cartoons here. http://www.theonion.com/graphic/sun-burned-50985
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piratepilates posted:Seriously look at how rad this is:
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MikeJF posted:This is the worst thing I've ever seen.
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piratepilates posted:Seriously look at how rad this is: That is loving terrifying. I mean it looks cool, but it is terrifying. From pictures, the Chicago Els look exactly like NYC elevated trains, so I assume they are just as loud. If you lived right next to a stop there is literally no way in hell that you do not have hearing loss. There was a recent news story about one stop in Queens that has a school right next to it, and the teachers have to stop teaching every time a train passes because it is that loud. My friend lived around the corner and it was impossible to watch TV, listen to music, or talk if the windows were open and a train passed. There is one part in the Bronx where the train comes within inches of a building on a turn.
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ToastyPotato posted:That is loving terrifying. I mean it looks cool, but it is terrifying. It's in Germany though so it's probably perfect. Switzerland also has really cool looking transit, stuff like trams going over old bridges over picturesque rivers.
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ToastyPotato posted:That is loving terrifying. I mean it looks cool, but it is terrifying. Having ridden in it, the only thing slightly worrying is the amount it sways left and right when it turns a corner. Regular users probably have pretty good sea legs.
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ArchangeI posted:Having ridden in it, the only thing slightly worrying is the amount it sways left and right when it turns a corner. Regular users probably have pretty good sea legs. Like us regulars on Boston's Green Line
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 21:33 |
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Are there any goon modders? Bought the game and geek in me wants to have a branded coffee shop with my coffee companies logo. Looked at the asset editor and it's not something I feel comfortable with. can offer free bags of coffee in exchange?
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 16:49 |
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Standing on a hay wagon trains you pretty well for the movements of a metro. I'm not a bumpkin.
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MasterControl posted:Are there any goon modders? Bought the game and geek in me wants to have a branded coffee shop with my coffee companies logo. Do you barter exclusively with your customers or do some of them use a form of currency?
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Decrepus posted:Do you barter exclusively with your customers or do some of them use a form of currency? As a small business operator, I've learned to love the barter economy. Let's say I have a profit margin of 50% on my product (not unheard of for value-added food, my industry). If I can give you $10 worth of product instead of $10 cash in exchange for something, I've effectively paid you $5 instead of $10.
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I also like the idea of bartering video game models for coffee. Sounds like fun.
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