When you start founding a new city inCities: Skylines 2, you’ll notice you’re dealing with everyday people with regular needs. Your task first is to establish all the necessary services for your citizens, with transportation being a crucial focus right from the start as a first step to a big city.

As your city grows, the need for citizen mobility becomes evident. The first available transportation option is the bus. This guide will lead you through the steps of setting up bus lines, alongside offering valuable tips for their efficient creation.

Transportation tree in Cities: Skylines 2.

How To Access The Bus

When you begin your progression and your citizens' needs grow with the population,providing flexible transport for your citizens becomes essential. The first important step is establishing a public transport network.

Access to transportation servicesbecomes available earlier when you reach the fourth milestone,the Grand Village. Initially, you’llgain access to basic transportation services, starting with buses.

Bus from back in Cities: Skylines 2.

Establishing buses might be an early step, butyour main focus should be on learning how to control them, especially since your city hasn’t grown much yet.

How To Set Up Buses

As you decide to start setting up buses, you’ll go through some steps, fromestablishing a bus depot to putting up bus stop signsso that citizens can access them.

Establish Bus Depot

The Bus Depot is the first accessible building in transportation services. It operates as a maintenance center to refuel, serving as the exit point for all buses, andstanding as the initial step in establishing your transport network.

You can set it up foran initial cost of 150,000 and a monthly upkeep of 62,000, which will provide you with 25 vehicles. You have the option to upgrade it with anExtra Garage to add ten more vehicles, an upgrade that comes with an initial cost of 75,000 and a monthly upkeep of 30,000.

Establish a Bus Depot in Cities: Skylines 2.

In your initial setup, there’s no need for upgrades sincethe base capacity of 25 vehicles is more than sufficientfor your current needs, and it’s advisable to manage your money carefully at this stage.

Additionally,there’s another upgrade that enables electric busesto offer an environmentally friendly alternative andreduce pollution in your city.This will involve an initial cost of 18,500 and a monthly upkeep of 29,000.

Establish Bus Stop signs in Cities: Skylines 2.

you’re able to change the bus type from the Bus Line Panel.

Set Up Bus Stops

As youfinish establishing the Bus Depot, you’ll gain access to theBus Stop Sign, andBus Stop Shelterproviding added comfort with seats.

It’s recommended toset up the Depot on the current edge of your city.

Cities: Skylines 2 map appears bus stops

They must beadded around the entire city, andplaced on both sides of the roadto ensure there’s one for departures and another for arrivals. This arrangement optimizes the efficiency of the transport network.

Make sure that all citizens have easy access to the bus stops because this is a necessary step before creating the bus lines. Accessibility for all citizens is key at this stage.

Bus Line Tool in Cities: Skylines 2.

Set Up A Bus Line

Upon completing the setup of Bus Stops, you’ll be prepared tocreate your bus lines with the bus line tool. This involveslinking bus stops to determine the routefor departures and arrivals, as it signifies the final step in establishing your bus service.

You also have the option to incorporate aOne-Way Public Transport Lane, which functions as a dedicated road for public transport,restricting access to other vehicles. While it’s not necessary for a small city, you’ll also have the option toinclude a Bus Station for better management.

Public transport lane in Cities: Skylines 2.

you’re able to havemultiple bus stops in one placeas aterminal for different bus lines, and as your city grows, this station canfunction as a terminal to drop off passengersefficiently. Implementing this will require a cost of 200,000 with a monthly upkeep of 56,000.

you may upgrade it by addinga taxi stop, an extra platform, and an electric bus recharging station.

Manage buses in Cities: Skylines 2.

Track And Manage Buses

Once you finish setting up your first transportation service, the next crucial step is to manage them.Go to the Transportation menu,click on the bus icon under public transport, and then open the specific bus line you want to managebyclicking on the line details icon, which will open a bus line panel.

From this panel,you canhandle all the details of the bus line, includingticket prices, assigned vehicles, the schedule, and the bus type. You can alsoclick on each point on the line to take you to the bus stop itself.

Changing the Color Line and Bus color in Cities: Skylines 2.

The maximum number of vehicles on a line depends on the line’s length.

Bus Line Appearance

When you initially start your transportation services with buses, this feature might not be essentialas it’s primarily an appearance option to change the bus color and bus line color.However, it becomes a useful feature when you have multiple bus lines.

Within the public transport panel, you have the optionto change the color of each bus line and the bus color itself, a useful step to make each line easily distinguishable. Additionally, from the same location, you canchange the name of each bus linefor further clarity.