Chippewa Lumber's two halves really ought to be more directly connected

[tired glade]

Right now all of the processing parts of CL aren't very well connected to the harvest parts of the timber industry. Any trucks wanting to go to the sawmill have gotta drive through the biggest, densest residential development in the city. Meantime in the current build a road was run across the highlands almost, but not quite, through to the sawmill area, as seen at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/Es03OD7OhfI?t=1509

CPP was even talking at the time about not wanting a cul-de-sac, but then went back over and hooked in over by the farm industry. But that road stub there is screaming to be connected through to the sawmills if some way down that hill can be found: The lumber company people would want it as a faster route and the residents would want it so's forestry trucks stop rumbling past their front yards.

[tired glade]

Still not done 😦 You can see it really clearly at this timestamp:

https://youtu.be/Nl1n8S9l-G0?t=1512

I think a connection could be made by looping the Chippewa Lumber sawmill road in and behind the industry buildings, and then slash sideways and up to connect up to the highlands road network near the firewatch tower.

With that much run the grade should be reasonable, it'd de-culdesac the industry row, and it'd help divert the truck traffic out of the more built up areas. Right now I think the favoured connection is through the main residential area and then out past the high school, which isn't great for anyone along that.

[tired glade]

Reupping this because the traffic is getting pretty crushing :v

[sonic moon]

Here's to hoping CPP is saving it for the traffic fixes episode, he's been mentioning.

[tired glade]

Yeah, it'd be a good time to do it

[tired glade]

... but it looks like it wasn't :v

[fallen panther]

He mentioned he'd be fixing a lot of the road traffic and connectivity issues in the next episode no?

I think he's planning this for then

At least, I would hope so

[tired glade]

Wellllll the sawmills aren't a cul-de-sac any more, but it's still not directly connected to the harvesting area :v

[tired glade]

At least CPP finally noticed the freight traffic, but took the lazy out :v

[ember ferry]

I think that the amount of industrial traffic going through Couillard would now anger the city and residents enough that they would be calling for an alternate truck route outside of the city.

[tired glade]

Yep

It'd be pretty simple too IMO

Should be able to wind a road down from about the firewatch tower

[ember ferry]

I agree. I could see the city start to put more and more restrictions on the route (to the best of their ability)

and possibly even try incentivize them by putting so many conditions onto their projects to point it makes more sense to build a new truck route.

[tired glade]

Honestly if I were CL I'd want that road for my own purposes anyway, they don't want to take that circuitous route through town traffic either

[ember ferry]

True, faster delivery times means increased profits.

[torpid bobcat]

I had the same thought. Well actually what I had thought was that a tunnel might be a possible solution to get down, though Phil seems kind of allergic to those.

[ember ferry]

Haha! That is definitely one way to get down. Phil dosen't really like tunnels because the real world costs of constructing and maintaining them is huge.for a small jurisdiction or even a smallish forestry company, constructing a tunnel would not make fiscal sense. Granted that this is a game, he still tries to build with some realism.

[tired glade]

Right, but I've been up and down logging roads and I can promise you they're willing to accept grades and turns you would not believe 😄