Light rail overhaul
Light rail overhaul
One transport mode I always felt was missing from Transport Fever was the light rail.
Sure, there are trams, but they seem little more than glorified buses, many light rail systems have extensive off-street running and I wanted to be able to replicate that in the game.
Features:
– Two new street types that visually resemble track, a two-way and one-way road
– New “light rail” station that serves tram vehicles only can be built at ground level, elevated or underground
– Every vanilla tram receives new variants that allow them to be “doubled up” or have multiple trailing cars (depending on type)
– All modern-era trams (post-2000) are set to have a top speed of at least 80km/h (50mph) to take advantage of dedicated tracks
– A “tram filter” a short construction that prevents nontram vehicles pathing along the track (see below)
Limitations:
I have had to work within what the game code will allow, so there are some limitations and workarounds:
– When building the new tracks, you still need to select “tram”
– There is currently no way to completely restrict other vehicles using the street, however, only trams can path through a “light rail” station or the provided “tram filter”, so if you have a station en route then no other vehicle types will appear. It helps to choose “YES” to the bus lane when building (not visible)
– Street bridges paint their own textures, so I have included 3 new bridge types which are copies of Stone, Iron, and Concrete which will texture the track ballast
– Unlike regular train tracks in Transport Fever, these “light rail” tracks look a little flat, and that is because they are. I experimented with adding assets to the road types, but it gave mixed results: The vehicles do not properly ride on them, and the transitions to vanilla roads don’t look right. The solution I went with looks ok and integrates well when connecting to vanilla roads for one street running.
– All street types require “sidewalks”. This means pedestrians may path along the side of the light rail tracks
Please let me know if you have any issues, I will try to fix bugs as soon as possible.
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