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My suggestion is to not use real stars, set the number of systems to around 200, and set spawn chance to 100.  If you start with 1-2 nprs you should find them within 8-10 points from your home.

No matter how you build you will get backups. [snip] They will eventually fill to all edges of the map.

Actually not true, after 4 cities at over 150k pop I've only one ever had backups with trains, and that was due to flooding from a dam.

Your station services two trains at once? What a slut.

I'm kidding. It looks awesome.

4, actually what with it having two double lines.  I would love to see a single lane version, and a lifted version.  So I could use it as a station for a L train.

Cemeteries and landfills set to empty that are empty will use their vehicles to transport to crematoriums and incinerators, respectively.

My first night of city building.
Only real traffic problem is on the West end of The Knot going south into Test Site #4.

I also messed around with stacking up dams

Yeah, you can use normal level power lines to cross over any level of elevated road.

A good way to design a city (in reality and hopefully in game (seeing some of the ai for traffic for this has me worried)) is to have high volume alternating oneways going n/s or e/w while the alternating direction goes plain two lane. 

In reality those towns time their lights so that if you are on one of the one ways you should be able to go through with out stopping.

From what I've seen the traffic AI needs work.  I would LOVE if I could do custom roads.  Set speeds, turn lanes, and other such things.  Like making a 4 lane road that has only one lane going in one direction or making a two lane one direction with a top speed of 100.