Light rail overhaul
One transport mode I always felt was missing from Transport Fever was light rail.
Sure, there are trams, but they seem little more than glorified busses, 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 allows 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 non tram 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 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 doesn’t look right. The solution I went with looks ok and integrates well when connecting to vanilla roads for on 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.
