Road Tools in Cities Skylines 2, explained

I remember downloading a load of mods just to make my Cities Skylines roads work the way I wanted to. However, with Cities Skylines 2, some of the most significant mods were taken inspiration from and made it to the actual game, like Road Tools.

I've played the game with the Road Tools feature and thought it was a ton of fun. I'll tell you all about my experience below!

How do road tools work in Cities Skylines 2?

Roads play a crucial role in the Cities Skylines franchise as a whole. Not only do they connect your cities together, but they're your main focus while or before building a block, and having the proper tools is crucial to paving good roads.

Grid Mode in Cities Skylines 2

If you're anything like me and struggle to fill up a rapidly growing city, Cities Skylines 2 adds an all-new Grid Mode, letting you create multiple city blocks in no time, so you can see your city expand in a matter of a few clicks. Whatever road you create, you can choose to include plumbing and electricity within the road, so you never have to see free-hanging cables in your city again.

Parallel Mode in Cities Skylines 2

If the road layout isn't working out for you or creating roads seems to be too much work, don't worry, because Cities Skylines 2 has a Parallel mode, allowing you to create a road parallel to the one you've been building, making it much more seamless to let the traffic flow instead of messing up while creating the road on the other side.

Parking Lots in Cities Skylines 2

I remember having to install a ton of mods in Cities Skylines to have a decent-looking parking lot, and even if I had modded parking, it didn't always work out perfectly. In Cities Skylines 2, however, parking lots and parking facilities are implemented in the base game.

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Other new road features in Cities Skylines 2

A road manager is included in Cities Skylines 2, allowing you to change pretty much every aspect of the road, such as which road a car may turn onto, which intersection to take, and the presence of traffic lights and various traffic signs.

The game also makes creating intersections quite easy, which is one of my favorite changes. Regardless of whether you put an actual road or a pedestrian road on top of an existing one, it will automatically connect them in the best way, and the pedestrian road will create a crosswalk by itself.

The game also includes a Road Maintenance Depot as a way to create more interactive gameplay with roads as car accidents occur, roads get weathered over time, and traffic increases due to such incidents. To sum it up, the Cities Skylines 2 road tools are as good as they seem on paper, making life so much easier without any mods required.

For more on Cities Skylines, be sure to check out Cities Skylines 2 building upgrade system, explained here on Pro Game Guides.