Chapter Timestamps Below. Cul-De-Sacs have a bad image, but secretly desired by so many. Who secretly desire these discontinuous road systems. This side-quest from the Uni Masters Series, attempts to look at BOTH SIDES of the Cul-de-sac by asking experts and looking at case cities like Hampstead Gardens England, Dayton Ohio, Berkeley California, Radburn and then test out these Cul-De-Sac road systems in Cities Skylines 1 and Cities Skylines 2.
Chapter Timestamps:
0:00 What are Cul-De-Sacs
0:36 Where are they all?
1:33 Developers’ love them
4:04 1st Expert: Structural Engineer
6:19 2nd Expert: Policy Maker
8:10 3rd Expert: Urban Planner
9:40 It’s all Economical
10:33 Easy to Build
11:22 Cities Skylines 2 Data
11:39 Hampstead England
12:50 Traffic Calmness
References
Thank you to these videos for their footage
Stock: Canva
Google Earth and Google Maps
Articles and Books
http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/access24.pdf
https://www.gov1.com/community-development/articles/debating-the-value-of-the-cul-de-sac-7W9VLdHFrcqVKK4o/
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/developers-want-build-230-more-1966238
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Love it! Can you do a deep dive into roundabouts?
Very interesting! I'm a little confused though, are you saying cul de sacs increase or decrease fatal traffic accidents in reality? Or does it depend?
In CS2 I have gone to creating most culj-de-sacs with just an end and not a round about so I can add paths more easily. I only use a round about at the end of a lane I need a bus to turn around on.
10:10 that makes so much sense. It'll concentrate traffic onto dedicated roads, the cul de sacs will only have low speeds, with pedestrians and cyclists having separated paths to easily access other parts of the neighbourhood removing the necessity of a car for basic needs.
Are american urban planners stupid???
Build Roselle Interchange.
Big assumption about walking and cycling at the start… well serviced cul-de-sacs work very well when only being a cul-de-sac for vehicles. Areas with footpath and cycleway connected cul-de-sacs allow for safer transit between local housing and shopping than areas with well-connected roadways. We have a number of areas in my own city with many cul-de-sacs but all within easy pedestrian access of a lot of public transit routes. I'm glad you kind of addressed that at the end. Basically they should be designed into the whole layout prior to building, but car-centric, dollar-only-driven developers are pretty unlikely to do that willingly and off their own bat.
ps try bulbing the end of your lanes with a larger road, or actually adding a tight circle of lane instead of an actual roundabout: you can zone more… but hopefully functioning bulbs will be a thing soon
Doesn't matter. We like cul de sacs and that's all that matters really.
Being a Brit who lives in America, I think just putting footpath cut throughs from one area to another would make a huge difference. It's very noticeable how far around you have to go, to get from sub division to sub division when a simple path could make all the difference.
i live in a town in australia thats growing, and theres so many culdesac and suburban style development around that its been raising rent prices and making less places up for rent. so not only are culdesacs terrible for people in them, its indirectly affecting the people living in the normal grid based part of the town
Would it be possible to combine cul-de-sac suburbs with a cable car system? Limiting thru traffic but still enabling mass transit? 🤔