Best Public Transport in Cities: Skylines 2

Cities: Skylines 2 is a city-building game where players are able to create entire cities from scratch. This involves building homes and amenities and providing citizens with places to work. However, a big part of creating a city is building a network of roads for people to travel around. Traffic jams will infuriate people if they cannot get to and from work in a reasonable amount of time, and trouble will brew if the emergency services cannot react quickly enough to events unfolding across the city.

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However, the roads are also an important place for the public transport systems in the city. From Trams to airports, Cities: Skylines 2 has it all. However, not all of these transport systems are as necessary as each other. Not everyone owns a car in Cities: Skylines 2, so players will need to think about incorporating some of the better public transport systems in the game into their cities.

5 Planes

A Great Way To Bring Money Into The City

Building an airport in Cities: Skylines 2 is definitely a decision that should be made later on in the game. These transport buildings take up a lot of space and can limit the height of some of the buildings players want to place around the area. Having air travel in the city can also clog up the roads near the structure with high levels of traffic, but this issue can be alleviated by building some other public transport options in the area. Fortunately, there are some key positives to using air travel in this game.

Firstly, air travel can help citizens easily jet from one side of the city to the other. This is a great option for big cities and widens the employment radius for all new citizens. Secondly, an airport provides an extra route for tourists to enter the city. As such, a player will find that air travel greatly adds more funding to tourism districts and commercial areas. Airports may not be great for newer players, but anyone experienced with Cities: Skylines 2 will want to add planes to their game.

4 Taxis

A Transport Option That Takes Up Little Space

The taxi depots in Cities: Skylines 2 require no extra building options from the player. They take up just as much space on the map as a house or office, and the taxis in question use the roads that are already there just like the rest of the traffic. As a result, a taxi depot in Cities: Skylines 2 provides citizens who do not have access to their own vehicle with a way to get around the city in a cheap, effective way.

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The only problem with taxis is that these cars do add to traffic and congestion issues in the game. What's more, these cars will not function properly if the roads and traffic routes are not managed correctly.

3 Trains

Get A Large Quantity Of People Around The City

The train systems in Cities: Skylines 2 are a great way to get large numbers of people from one location to another. These trains can run in one direction or two; it is up to the player which they prefer. This means that citizens will freely be able to travel to various districts with ease and will be able to get employed wherever they are needed.

The downside to building an above-ground train system in this game is that each station is quite large, so players will need to think about where they will place these buildings in a way that is beneficial to the area without being an inconvenience. Furthermore, the tracks will need to be placed across the map in a way that is efficient and does not interrupt the placement of the roads that are already in place.

2 Subway

The Perfect Solution To The Problems Posed By Trains

The subway system in Cities: Skylines 2 is another way for players to get their citizens across the city. The initial stations may be large, like with a regular train system, but this problem is offset by the fact that all the tracks are placed underground. Therefore, this train system isn't going to impact the roads that the player has carefully placed in a way that perfectly mitigates any congestion problems.

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1 Buses

The Primary Transport System In Cities: Skylines 2

The public bus system is the first transport system that players will unlock in Cities: Skylines 2. As such, it will act as a tutorial for all other methods of public transport in the game. Players will need to find a place to put their bus depot and will then set about placing down every bus route they need, with each one starting and ending at the depot. The great thing about the bus system is that it is fairly cheap to operate, and players can choose to have as many bus routes in their city as they wish. These routes can be short hops around the neighborhood, or they can take citizens to and from entirely new districts.

The only problem players may discover when using buses in their city is that these large vehicles can still contribute to congestion on the roads. However, having two buses on one road at once is far better than having to deal with twenty additional cars.