Parking lots in Cities: Skylines — the Parking Lot mod with service roads

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Parking lots fix one of the most visible problems in a dense Cities: Skylines city: streets lined with parked cars around every stadium, mall and busy centre. Roadside parking isn’t just ugly. Cars slowing down to park and pull out block a lane, and in busy districts that’s enough to back up a whole street. The Parking Lot mod adds lots that citizens actually use.

Is parking really the problem?

Look for a lot of roadside parking around venues, shopping centres or your downtown. If the parked cars line every street within a few blocks, and the traffic overlay shows slow, red streets right there, a parking lot will help. If traffic is bad but nobody’s parking, the problem is elsewhere: junctions, lane use or missing transit.

Building a lot

1. Find the mod in game (1:52). It adds parking networks to the roads menu.
2. Look through the available lots (3:08): different sizes and layouts, from a few spaces along a service road to large surface lots.
3. Lay out service roads first (4:58). These are the aisles cars drive through. Network Anarchy lets them go where the game normally refuses, for example close to buildings (5:21).
4. Compare the parking space sizes (7:22) and pick the one that fits the space. Bigger isn’t automatically better; a lot that’s too big for the area looks empty and wastes land.
5. Add the parking spaces along the service roads (8:06).
6. If markers don’t show up properly, adjust them with Move It.
7. Beautify the lot with trees, hedges and props (12:44). A row of trees between the lot and the street makes a big difference.

Make cars use it

Citizens prefer the kerb. It’s closer. To fill your lot, disallow roadside parking on the surrounding streets with TM:PE. I did this several times in the Westfield series. It also frees up a lane on those streets, which helps traffic twice.

TM:PE’s parking options make this even more realistic: with its advanced parking AI, citizens actually search for a space and walk from where they parked, so the location of your lots starts to matter.

Where to put parking

• Next to the destination, not in front of it. A lot one street behind the stadium keeps the main road free.
• At the edge of walkable districts. Park-and-walk keeps cars out of shopping streets.
• At train stations in the suburbs. Park-and-ride turns drivers into passengers before they reach the congested centre.

Common problems

The lot stays empty. Roadside parking nearby is still allowed, or the lot isn’t connected properly to the street. Check both.

Cars queue at the entrance. One entrance for a big lot is too few. Add a second access road or split the lot.

Parking markers float or sink. The lot sits on a slope. Level the ground first or adjust the markers with Move It.

In Cities: Skylines II

The CS2 equivalent is Parking Lot Tool by Torbi: draw a shape and it fills it with a finished parking lot that cars actually use. For Japanese-style coin parking with wheel stops, the channel’s playset adds a dedicated asset — see the Mod Stack. Parking Pricing then raises fees where demand is high, which nudges people towards transit.

Video chapters

1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:22An example of the mod in use
3. 1:52Where to find the installed mod in game
4. 3:08The different available lots
5. 4:58Adding service roads first (Anarchy)
6. 5:21Activating Anarchy
7. 7:22Comparing parking space sizes
8. 8:06Adding the parking spaces
9. 12:44Beautifying your parking lots

Clicking a chapter starts the video above at that point.

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