We all know traffic management is half the game in Cities: Skylines. As for Cities: Skylines 2, it seems the devs at Colossal Order have been paying close attention to the road tools we use most to ease the burdens that busy junctions place on our cities. As such, they look to have added a brand-spanking new tool to help keep traffic flowing, in the form of a No Straight Through [[link]] road sign tool.
It's going to be super useful for creating dedicated lanes, as before there were only No Right/Left Turn signs in the menu.
I know it's just a circle with [[link]] an arrow crossed out, but I am way too excited about this [[link]] simple road tool. Why? I'll bloody tell you why.
Ask any original player, and they'll tell you one of the is Traffic Manager (TM:PE). Within its comprehensive list of tools, you get a couple of super useful ones to improve junction traffic flow with dedicated lanes: Lane Arrows and Lane Connector.
The latter is the more intricate of the two, and allows you to decide which lane vehicles will turn into on a junction. Lane Arrows is the simplified version of this, and the tool
Collossal Order is emulating in Cities: Skylines 2. What it does is create dedicated turning lanes
for when you're not too bothered which lane your cims' vehicles are going to turn into.
While Lane Arrows is not as intricate as the Lane Connector tool, the addition of a No Straight Through sign is welcome because it'll stop people cutting across busy intersections and causing pile-ups. It's not the best solution, but it at least rounds off the simple road tools nicely, leaving nothing to our little cims' interpretation.
If you're more of a mirco-managing Cities player like myself, however, you'll need to wait for mods to be able to dictate vehicle trajectories to a T.