Traffic Park Unlock Guide for Cities: Skylines

Traffic Park
Cost to Build	₡10,000
Upkeep	₡560/week
Entertainment Value	100
Noise Pollution	20

The Traffic Park is a unique building available from the Cities: Skylines Mass Transit DLC.

To unlock it, you must have 5,500 weekly passengers using public transportation in your city. This also requires the Worthy Village population milestone, which can be anywhere from 360 to 1,500 population, depending on the map.

Once you fulfill these requirements, you’ll be able to build the Traffic Park from the Landmarks tab of the Unique Building menu for ₡100,000.

Until then, you can hover over its silhouette to see your progress.

Although the Landmarks Unique Building tab is unlocked rather early, expect to be well into mid- or late game by the time this is unlocked – just because 5,500 is a rather large number of passengers.

Here’s a few tips for getting more people to use your public transport.

Tip #1: Connect Residential To Workplaces and Shopping

The bulk of your commuters are going to be people going to and from work.

Make sure there’s a public transport option taking people from residential zones to your industrial, office, and commercial clusters.

This metro brings its passengers directly to the heart of this high density office and commercial area.

Tip #2: Place Stops at Unique Buildings, Parks, and Plazas

Unique buildings and other leisure establishments can attract a lot of citizens and tourists.

Make sure they’re not driving there by placing a bus stop or rail transit station very close by.

Tip #3: Make Public Transport Free

You can further encourage public transport by making it free of charge. And this is easy to accomplish:

Open the Policies panel, and check ‘Free Public Transport’ under the City Planning tab.

The Free Public Transport policy.

Tip #4: Try a Hierarchy Approach

The more convenient and efficient you make your public transport system, the more your citizens are likely to use this.

A good method to try is to have one local mode of transport collecting passengers from smaller streets, then allowing them to transfer easily to a longer-distance mode of transport.

For example, you can have bus stops along your smaller streets (so people can easily walk to them from where they live and work).

In this example, trams (purple) and buses (blue) go around local streets and bring passengers to the metro station (green) which will take them farther across the city.

You can then place one bus stop where they can easily transfer to a metro that takes them farther across the city.

Going one step further, you can have that metro bring them to intercity public transport like a train station, harbor, or airport.

Tip #5: Get Intercity Transport When You Can

Intercity transport options can take a while to get access to (because of cost, the milestones required, or the inaccessibility of the outside connections), but they will play a big role in getting you to 5,500 weekly passengers.

Trains, harbors, and airplanes bring in passengers in large numbers. So definitely build these whenever possible.

This strategy works even better if your city has a high Attractiveness score (due to having high land value and plenty of unique buildings).

A cruise ship bringing 100 passengers to the harbor.

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