Construction (Cities in Motion)

In order to create a line, you need to build places for your vehicles to stop. Each transportation method has it's own stops, some also need tracks.

## Bus stops

Buses can drive on all roads in the game, but they need bus stops for loading and unloading passengers. Bus stops can be built on any road except highways and highway
ramps (but they can drive on them). There are 3 kinds of bus stops.

* **Bus stop with sign:** Available from 1920, Cheap and basic, minimum price and maintenance costs, low attractiveness.
* **Bus stop with shelter:** Available from 1931, more expensive, has better attractiveness. Protects the passengers from the weather.
* **Luxury bus stop:** Available from 1981, Expensive and very attractive. Passengers can buy from a vending machine located in the stop (but you don't earn money

from that).

## Tram stops & tracks

Tram tracks can be built on ground level only, they can be built on roads but not highways and highway ramps. When built on an avenue, the tracks are located in the middle, on all other roads, they are located on the road itself. After building the tracks, tram stops can be built beside the tracks. Like bus stops, there are 3 kinds of tram stops. They are basically the same as bus stops:

* **Tram stop with sign:** Available from 1920.
* **Tram stop with shelter:** Available from 1926.
* **Luxury tram stop:** Available from 1965.

Tram tracks can be built on the ground and on roads.

## Metro stations & tracks

Metro tracks can be built on 5 different levels: elevated, ground level and 3 underground levels. These levels can be connected to eachother. If you need to cross a river, you can use elevated tracks or underground level 3.

Each different level has it's own station (underground stations are identical on all levels). When building metro, you should first build your stations and then connect them with tracks.

* **Underground metro station:** Available from 1920. Very expensive, but also very useful. Can be built just about anywhere, all you need is one small square available on the ground.

The Metro Stations DLC adds 2 new underground metro stations: Crossed Platform Station and Multiplatform Station.

* **Ground-level metro station:** Available from 1920. The cheapest metro station. but also you need a very large area to build it. Cannot be built on top of roads and

buildings.

* **Elevated metro station:** Available from 1946. Cheaper than underground, tracks can be built almost over anything, stations can be built over roads and open space, but not above buildings.

## Waterbus piers

Piers are built on riversides. They can only be built on undeveloped ground. You need to rotate the pier so the ground side will be on the ground, the game will not do this automatically.

## Heliports

The most luxurious way to travel in the game. Available from 1957, they can be built on any open ground.

## Monorail station & tracks

The monorail is a new transportation method introduced in the Tokyo expansion pack. It replaces the tram on that map. The monorail has higher capacity (but is more expensive) than the bus, and has lower capacity (and is cheaper) than the metro.

Monorail tracks can only be built overground, which makes it completely separated from regular traffic. One of the largest disadvantages of the monorail is that it has only single tracks (while both the metro and trams have dual tracks), so trains can pass one another only in stations and special dual track segments.

The monorail station is very large, but the fact that it is elevated makes it easy to build above roads.

## Trolleybus station & catenary lines

Trolleybuses are the new transportation method introduced in U.S Cities expansion pack. They are only available in New York City, as a replacement for the tram.

Trolleybuses are very much like the tram. They require building the infrastructure and stops in order to run. Instead of tracks, the trolleybuses have wheels just like a bus, but they run on electricity from the catenary lines above them.

Due to a mistake made by the developers, the trolleybuses can be used off-road, as if they were a regular tram, also, there seems to be a problem with building it on avenues.