1. Railway items are needed everywhere but take too long to get. I won't pay for railway currency.
   1. Airport shipments, repairing disaster zones, war deliveries, etc
   2. This is a big slowdown and annoyance to Contest of Mayor (CoM) tasks
   3. Train deployment gives a small amount of currency and takes hours between deployments. 
   4. Result is I need railway items for CoM tasks way faster than I can get them, and I won't buy railway currency. CoM is just slower and more annoying
2. Adding railway is a fun idea but practically is a big headache
   1. I like the idea of mass transit. Fits the spirit of being a mayor of Sim City. Figure out how to give your citizens this benefit
   2. If you've spent a lot of time optimizing your city layout, you kind of have to blow things up
   3. E.g. you have to make some sacrifices, give up population boosting buildings to make way for railroad tracks and/or spread out your Residential Zones (RZs) to new areas.. but maybe you're out of space and or need new police stations etc.
   4. Couldn't the train stations be smaller? And or more flexible with positioning?
   5. Would have been cool to have a new layer like a subway that only minimally disrupted your existing layout.
   6. The way it is now, I'd rather skip it altogether. Especially because of point 3 below, but I can't because of point 1 above...
3. The system is confusing
   1. It's unclear if there is any benefit to where you rout your railroad. The residential zones (RZs) right next to your train station itself get included in the train station radius, and that seems to determine the number of people that feed into your station?
   2. But what's the point of having lots of people waiting for a train if the only way to make trains come faster is to pay sim cash? 
   3. If there is no benefit to where you rout your railroad tracks, why not just do a tiny loop around the station? Thats probably not in the spirit of what was intended.
   4. Maybe it'd make more sense for your system to be operable if you connect two different stations? If I'm a citizen, what's the benefit of a single train station.. only 1 stop. I can go in a ride and end up where I started. If the tracks run by my RZ but the station is far away, I'll still yell at mayor about wanting mass transit.
   5. As is, with 3 train stations I've added so far, I'd say like 1 to 2% of my RZs can access it. And I don't know what the benefit to me (the mayor) is other than running straight into a paywall per point 1 above

Discussion and insights welcome

1. Railway items are needed everywhere but take too long to get. I won't pay for railway currency.
   1. Airport shipments, repairing disaster zones, war deliveries, etc
   2. This is a big slowdown and annoyance to Contest of Mayor (CoM) tasks
   3. Train deployment gives a small amount of currency and takes hours between deployments. 
   4. Result is I need railway items for CoM tasks way faster than I can get them, and I won't buy railway currency. CoM is just slower and more annoying
2. Adding railway is a fun idea but practically is a big headache
   1. I like the idea of mass transit. Fits the spirit of being a mayor of Sim City. Figure out how to give your citizens this benefit
   2. If you've spent a lot of time optimizing your city layout, you kind of have to blow things up
   3. E.g. you have to make some sacrifices, give up population boosting buildings to make way for railroad tracks and/or spread out your Residential Zones (RZs) to new areas.. but maybe you're out of space and or need new police stations etc.
   4. Couldn't the train stations be smaller? And or more flexible with positioning?
   5. Would have been cool to have a new layer like a subway that only minimally disrupted your existing layout.
   6. The way it is now, I'd rather skip it altogether. Especially because of point 3 below, but I can't because of point 1 above...
3. The system is confusing
   1. It's unclear if there is any benefit to where you rout your railroad. The residential zones (RZs) right next to your train station itself get included in the train station radius, and that seems to determine the number of people that feed into your station?
   2. But what's the point of having lots of people waiting for a train if the only way to make trains come faster is to pay sim cash? 
   3. If there is no benefit to where you rout your railroad tracks, why not just do a tiny loop around the station? Thats probably not in the spirit of what was intended.
   4. Maybe it'd make more sense for your system to be operable if you connect two different stations? If I'm a citizen, what's the benefit of a single train station.. only 1 stop. I can go in a ride and end up where I started. If the tracks run by my RZ but the station is far away, I'll still yell at mayor about wanting mass transit.
   5. As is, with 3 train stations I've added so far, I'd say like 1 to 2% of my RZs can access it. And I don't know what the benefit to me (the mayor) is other than running straight into a paywall per point 1 above

Discussion and insights welcome

Tnx, the game started in spring, 8 years ago, i started innseptember, having multiple cities now, and my fav. City now has the railroad. Its a level18 city, but war level 47, so a nice city. I also have a small city with railroads, so i have two. At atart there were a lot of bugs, but i remained, and learned to work with it. But the bolts is a real problem, because i have 2 trains now, i can get 50 passengers, but only action only once every 2.5 hours is a problem, also the bolts you need for everything, or caps, impossible to collect. But if they modify that at least, its playable, a bit boring but ok.

I have better things to do in my life than visit my city every 2.5 hours to send some non existent digital passengers on a train ride. Who came up with this concept? I want to build a city in the game, not play with choo choo trains.

At last. The train runs for 10 minutes check with you 

I think theres a bug in the train system, i tried to load passengers,  it told me, station full, but i upgraded, so i could load 3x20 passengers, but the icons to load passengers are gone, i also tried 2 other stations, an the same error! Has a tweak by delelopers gone wrong? My other  city still loads passengers.

After switchingoff device, and a restart i can reload passengers, strange bug

OK. There must have been an update which makes the trains available every 10 minutes. That’s huge improvement over every two hours!

I was so excited about the possibility of this mass transit thing actually working well, that I built a second train route in a different region. I thought I could probably double my production of railway simoleons with two lines. Not so. Now, when I dispatch a train on one route, it delays the train on the other route by 10 minutes. This is completely contrary to how things would work in the real world, and it completely removes the incentive to build multiple train lines.

I strongly recommend that you make it so dispatching a train on one route doesn’t affect the other routes. If you want people to lean into this new feature, make it beneficial to expand our mass transit lines!

Agree with this point. Not much point to multiple stations unless you can dispatch independently.

Only reason I can think of...say you wanted to pay simcash to rush dispatches faster than people fill any one station, so you can rush more dispatches with multiple stations. Not that I ever want to have to do that...

Yes the time reduction on dispatch was great, considering where we started from. 

Still don't like the pressure to redesign my city extensively with no upside

Related, Still don't understand the point of where you route the train tracks.. my tracks just run a tiny loop around the station to avoid extensive layout changes

Still don't like that the impact radius is tiny so I'm constantly getting yelled at by most of my city for not having mass transit

Can anyone tell me why i should keep 5 stations instead of 2? I think with this setup i better store 3 stations and clean the area with unneeded rails i could also use for better purposes?  I wonder if i store them if the 2 extra passenger seats at the station are stored with them? I have 90 passenger seats at central station, for what? Hihi, i could do with 50 with my2 trains

Just ago, the trains became even worse than before, now trains every 2 hours or so instead of 10 minutes. Nothing else changed. To listen for response it difficult for developers, they do what theywant, if it doesnt make more money theyskip it. They forget the users who will leave and find gm,es that do work! Discussing it here seems to be useless anyway….