Hi Guys,
Started a little project to build sydney.
Nothing much to write here yet. Some pics in the link below.
I know I've phoned it in with alot of grid-filler through the suburbs, but I've attempted to keep to the theme.
Surry hills with many 1x1 low density residential. Annandale/Five dock becoming 1x2 row houses. And eventually in the northern ryde region becoming 1x3 low dens blocks.
What I DO want to hear about
Misalignments:
Major roads (Parramatta Rd, City Rd, Victoria Rd etc.
CBD streets, Clarence, York George, etc.
Problems I know about and can't really be fixed.
Gladesville, and Iron Cove Bridge: Diagonal Bridges :(
Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Cross City Tunnel. Just not possible
Problems That have been worked around
Sydney Harbour Bridge. Well it's a fair bit further west than it should be, but it works.
Cahill Expressway westernmost terminus: A nice custom Y-Link interchage seemed most appropriate
Eastern Distributor. It just became an aboveground road.
Southern Cross Drive / South Downling Street. I'd like to RHW collector/distributor... but it's too much like hard work.
Things still to do
DRUITT ST: Taking an at-ground road and making it a above ground raised road onramp to a ground highway, then taking the ground highway back elevated again to pyrmont...
MOUNT ST INTERCHAGE: I'm fearing this one. I might just perpendicular it.
City West Link: It's not quite right, but I'm not excatly sure what to do.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_fdjLVoWqgFk/TdfkNM2cpNI/AAAAAAAAAVU/t5qX129nEEE/s800/Sydney%20CBD-Sep.%2024%2C%20821305860042.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_fdjLVoWqgFk/TdfkRKiLK8I/AAAAAAAAAVY/FHBSTXksxcc/s800/Sydney-1305929872.jpgk)
Welcome to the world of the Mayor Diaries, where everything is possible :)
Sound as an interesting project. It's not so easy to recreate real cities into Simcity, but still it's a great challenge. Keep it up :thumbsup:
Looks promising so far! As for diagonal bridges, you might try THIS (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=11555.0) workaround (If you already know about this and decided it won't work then just ignore me). Obviously this is very limited, and no fancy bridges are possible, but it's something to think about if you haven't seen it.
Keep up the good work; I can't wait to see some development! I would recommend finding a good terrain mod and water mod, though... the Maxis default water looks... poisonous. ;)
The North Shore line has reached Wollstonecraft. Damn those curves.
River road is about to begin.
Huge fill-in out cabarita way. Plenty of FAR work on angles to get Queen St, Harris St, and Lyons Rd West to sit nicely.
The warringah freeway is all the way north to willoughby road, and by my measurements is looking well aligned.
We're almost up to the M4!
Concord road needs to be better placed, but I'm looking forward to pushing north.
UNFORTUNATELY I installed the memorial hospital from the LEX DVD. I sued it to place Royal North Shore hospital.
I've ended up with an immortal building at Hampden Rd / Pacific Hwy nexto to St. Leonards.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_fdjLVoWqgFk/TdomQzZVAQI/AAAAAAAAAWA/8qJfFxRkvlQ/s800/Sydney-1306139489.jpg)
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the cross city tunnel is possible. but it would have to be the very first thing you make.