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"Mark Goodge" <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:28:51 GMT, *****General put finger to keyboard
> and typed:
>
>>I have placed train and fright stations around my city and connected them
>>to
>>both roads and train tracks but they are not being used at all. Why is
>>this?
>
> Sims won't use trains that much, compared to other forms of transport
> - they prefer subways and roads. Once you've got multiple connected
> cities in a region, sims will use the trains to commute between cities
> (and your tracks can get very congested across the borders if you're
> not careful), but they tend not to get used a lot within cities unless
> the geography makes them particularly attractive (such as being the
> most direct link across a river or to an island).
>
> Within a city, though, rail tracks really come into their own when run
> through industrial areas and then connect out to neighbouring cities
> (or Sim Nation, if you don't have other cities in your region yet) -
> any industry which develops next to the tracks will send its freight
> out by rail, which reduces truck traffic a lot. Put in a few freight
> stations for the industries which don't have direct rail connections,
> and you can almost eliminate long-distance trucking.
>
I've done that and still my train sattion usage is at 0. It's not a matter
of train stations bieng used much, they're not bieng used at all.
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