I’m a hardcore fan of Cities Skylines 1 and have been playing it for several years now. One issue I have though is how I go about making a highway system. It seems so complex, I don’t understand how I can connect place to place in a reasonable way and I feel like the only proper way to do it is to ravage through regions of my city to make massive interchanges and efficient routes. My strategy as a result is just using 6 lane roads as my “highways” and kinda just avoiding the idea of highways altogether. I’m so bad at it that my idea of creating an on/offramp is retrofitting roundabouts. I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this and also how to get my mind thinking of the right ways to make good highways.
Just do it, once your city has enough money if the bank, or your income is large enough, double down on making a highway. Demolish some buildings and tear your city in half, just like in real life. Most of the time if you have enough traffic that you need a highway in the town, you could probably avoid it in game, by enhancing the public transit options, however, that wouldn’t be realistic as to how cities are really run, so doing a highway every now and again is a fun change of pace.
The best way to get good at making a highway, is to make a highway, you can do it, set it up however you want, and see how it works. If something doesn’t work right, change it and find out how to make it work for you. Or if it is broken, it may be more fun to leave it broken. Stuff like that happens in real cities all the time.
Make sure you adjust your public transit options when you’re done splitting your city in half with your highway, since your bus routes will be interrupted.