Building roads
Manual Tutorials

Basic tutorial:

Starting
Setting up a bus service
Setting up a train service
Setting up a plane service
Conclusion

Advanced railway tutorial:

Two Platforms
Two Tracks
Basic Network

In game tutorial:

In-game tutorial
In-depth Instructions

Railway construction:
Building tracks
Building stations
Building depots
Placing signals
Buying & selling trains
Converting railways
Road construction:
Building roads
Building stations and loading bays
Building depots
Buying & selling road vehicles
Waterways construction:
Building docks
Building depots
Placing buoys
Buying & selling ships
Building locks and canals
Airport construction:
Building airports
Buying & selling aircraft
General construction:
Building bridges
Tunnels
Landscaping
Working with vehicles:
Setting vehicle orders
Refitting vehicles
Replacing vehicles
Grouping vehicles

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build and delete roads for vehicles (busses or trucks) and how to load and unload passengers and cargo.

Contents

How do I lay roads?

Click the Road construction button /File/en/Manual/Roadcnstr.png in the menu bar to open the Road construction toolbar:

The road construction toolbar

There are two ways to lay roads:

Building directional sections

Click on one of the directional road building buttons /File/en/Manual/Build road.png. This example uses the 1st button.

Placing roads

  1. Move the cursor over the tile you want to start your road on.
    Laying a new road
  2. Drag the cursor to where you want your road to end.
    Laying a new road
  3. Release the mouse button and your new road will appear.
    Your new road
half empty tile
building...
...arranged!

Removing roads

To remove the roads, select the Remove tool Clear button. The white square changes to a red square. Click & drag along the existing road sections to remove them. Click the Remove tool button again to deselect it. You can also use the R keyboard shortcut.

Using Autoroad tool

Click the Autoroad button Autoroad button in the road construction toolbar. You cursor will change accordingly.

Selecting Autoroad feature

Placing roads

  1. You can place roads across the straight edges of tiles. Place your cursor over a square and click & drag along the squares.
    Move your mouse in different directions to see how roads would be placed.
    Laying a straight piece of tracks
  2. Release your the mouse button to buid a straight road as indicated by the outline.
    A newly built straight section of roads
  3. You cannot place diagonal roads.
  4. The autoroad tool works with hilly terrain too.
Laying a piece of tracks over a hilly terrain
Laid a piece of tracks over hills

Removing roads

There are two ways to remove road sections (besides the dynamite Dynamite tool tool).

  1. To remove a section of roads, hold CTRL and click & drag along existing road section, just as you would when building roads.
    Deleting roads (with CTRL)
  2. Release the mouse button and the roads will be removed. Unlike with rail tracks, you lose money when removing roads.
    A newly deleted roads
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