This is the current progress of my city inspired by
London, Ontario, Canada. The city owns a lot of land south of the 401 highway, but there isn't really much there.. 99% of the city is north of there.. so it was weird starting in the south and building up, but I'm making pretty good progress.
It's built on the same map, the highway going west to east is the
401, the highway connecting it from the west is the 402, those and the river are pretty much exactly like they are in real life. Highbury street, which is the highway running north-south, in real life ends before the river and converts to a major throughfare type street. I'm keeping it a highway though, and eventually building a ring road, which real-life London doesn't have.
Downtown is the most accurate in terms of major roads, but a lot of things are changed for the sake of efficiently - real London wasn't really designed with any sort of plan it mind. I have an entertainment district in the same place, most major roads downtown, some shopping districts are in similar places, but a lot of it is completely different from the real city.. in fact, I would say, most of it is very different.
I had to buy land to the east, so that I can dump my sewage far from the city. Anything else leads to polluted water downtown.. and.. well, my fix has issues - it's flooding land in the area, due to the sheer number of sewage being pumped out.. and I have nowhere else to put it, except to buy more land to the east.. except that I should be expanding to the north. I already put up a dam, so we'll see what happens.
I left a lot of the rail lines exactly like they are in real life.. but re-purposed some of it and added more rail for an internal people-moving LRT type system and bits of it to bring in tourists on a separate line. I would have taken it all out and started from scratch, but I want the city to have at least some of that .. "London vibe"
Of course the following is nothing at all like London.. (except for the rail lines.. the IKEA is definitely something we don't have here)
My transportation network, with the train station in pretty much the same spot as it is in real life, acting as a hub. (Right where it says
Downtown). Just to the left, beside it, is a train station where tourists get off to see the amazing things London has to offer.
The real London of course doesn't have a subway line or LRT, but this game opens some doors..
Green and red are subway lines, I run the green line along Richmond/Wellington streets, the main north-south throughfare here.. (future planned LRT route in real life).. and the red line is one of the only diagonal streets we have.
Yellow is LRT, on the left it follows the actual rail line south, while on the right of downtown I've built new rail to make it into a U-shaped line. This might become a problem in the future, as my city relies on pedestrian walkways and bus-less mass transit to move people around.. so far.. Traffic problems are non-existent so far, but I think with so many people using public transit, that central hub is going to get overwhelmed.. but.. I'll deal with that when it happens, in the proper London, Ontario type manner.
The blue LRT line is going to be a U turning in the other direction - so far the only stop is the
entertainment district. .. I guess, having looked at that website, I should actually rename it. Good excuse to fire up the game and keep building.
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