Need help staving off traffic jams and bumper to bumper lanes in Cities Skylines? Then check out our helpful guide on easing traffic troubles in the game, with or without using mods.

Best Tips for Traffic in Cities Skylines

While traffic solutions may vary on your map selection and previous route decisions, there are still plenty of general tips that greatly improve your experience. We’ve divided these into three distinct categories for easy review.

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Best Mods for Traffic in Cities Skylines

Using mods may be considered “cheating” by some players of Cities Skylines, but we’d disagree. This is because Cities Skylines is a single-player game with personally determined goals. You can do what you want in your own game, including mods to improve traffic flow.

Traffic Manager: President’s Edition

Traffic Manager: President’s Editionon Steam Workshop is arguably the best traffic mod to ever be released for Cities: Skylines. By using the TMPE mod, you can access more sophisticated parking and lane tools. You’ll also unlock the ability to highly customize intersections, rails, road, and other traffic assets. Other small tweaking features are also available.

Network Anarchy

Want to just do whatever you want when placing roads and other traffic assets? Then check out theNetwork Anarchymod on the Steam Workshop. You’ll be able to ignore the typical placement restrictions in Cities Skylines to essentially do whatever you want. The mod is in beta, so keep in mind that bugs are likely to occur at some point.

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