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As you dive into Cities: Skylines 2, you'll realize that each service must evolve as you progress, meeting the growing demands of your citizens. Your responsibility is to ensure the provision of all these expanding needs, including the enhancement of transportation services for your citizens.
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PostsAs you begin providing transportation services to your citizens, remember the need to evolve it as your city expands, ensure a flexible local transportation network, as you start with basic transportation and incorporate tram lines to meet the growing demands. Eventually, you'll discover the necessity for a high-capacity and flexible transportation system, which will lead to the introduction of the subway.
How To Unlock The Subway
Upon reaching the fourth milestone, The Grand Village, you gain access to transportation services. At this point, you'll have the option to unlock the Subway, but you can do it after unlocking both the first and second tier nodes.
Using the Subway efficiently might be premature, so use your development points carefully to address other essential needs during this period.
Local transportation starts with buses as your city grows. You then bring in trams, offering a flexible alternative for citizens compared to buses. As your city expands further, you recognize the need for a high-capacity local transport option. This is where the Subway becomes an excellent choice, saving time and space without causing disruptions to road traffic.
To use the Subway, start by unlocking the initial tier node, the train, for one development point, and the second tier node, the tram, for two development points in the transportation development tree within the progression menu. Once these nodes are unlocked, you can access the Subway as a third tier node by spending four development points.
How To Set Up The Subway
When deciding to expand your transport network by setting up a subway, there are multiple steps to take, starting from establishing the Subway Yard to connecting subway lines.
How To Set Up Subway Yard
The Subway Yard acts as the central hub for the entire subway system, serving as a maintenance facility and housing all subway-related staff facilities. Setting up the Subway Yard incurs a cost of 200,000, with a monthly upkeep of 48,000.
Upon establishing a Subway Yard, you will be equipped with ten vehicles. If you wish to increase the number with more five vehicles, you can do it by adding Extra Tracks as an upgrade to the Subway Yard. This upgrade comes with a cost of 75,000, with a monthly upkeep of 16,000.
Another upgrade available to reduce maintenance duration is the Maintenance Hall. This enhancement comes with a cost of 50,000 and a monthly upkeep of 34,000.
Keep in mind that for additional upgrades, you will need more space beside the Subway Yard.
How To Set Up Subway Stations
You have two choices for building the subway station, underground or overground. Given our priority for space-saving, the best option is the underground station, which allows for seamless integration between buildings in the city. However, the overground station remains a suitable choice, especially in the outskirts of cities.
The underground station incurs a cost of 50,000, while the overground option comes with a cost of 25,000. Both options have a monthly upkeep of 10,000.
Additionally, there's an available upgrade to add services for a cost of 15,000, with a monthly upkeep of 16,000. This upgrade is valuable as it enhances the attractiveness of the station.
How To Set Up Subway Tracks
After completing the setup of all subway stations in your city, the next step is to connect them using subway tracks. Additionally, you need to establish connections between the tracks and the subway yard to enable the creation of subway lines that link these stations.
For subway tracks, similar to trains, you have two options; one-way tracks and double tracks. The double track incurs a cost of 2,500 for each kilometer, with a monthly upkeep of 250 per kilometer. On the other hand, the one-way track requires half of the cost of the double track.
The double subway track allows for tracks in both directions for the subway. On the other hand, the one-way track can serve as a means to connect the subway yard with other tracks or function as a transfer point for tracks.
To establish the underground tracks without any issues, ensure that you set the elevation at around minus 30 meters. While keeping an eye on pipes and underground cables.
How To Connect Subway Lines
Using the subway line tool, you can easily establish a line connecting all subway stations. Simply click on add a new waypoint at each station and create a loop that connects all subway stations, making it accessible for all citizens. Ensure that you link the double tracks to create a line in both directions.
Following this process, you'll be ready to receive subway vehicles from the subway yard to operate on the newly created subway line.
How To Manage Subway Lines
Managing subway lines is similar to handling other transportation services. You can easily manage them from the transportation menu by clicking on the subway icon. This allows you to view all the lines you've created for that transport service. For more detailed management, click on the details icon next to the subway line you wish to modify.
In this section, you can handle various line details, such as the number of vehicles in use, the color, and name of each line, as well as the schedule. Moreover, you can access each point on your line for efficient management.
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