I've been playing for a long time and I've noticed in my games that when I have bus and metro roughly paralleling each other cims will prefer to take the bus, even if they are waiting by the hundreds at the overcrowded stops, and it's never really made sense to me. I feel like I have to purposefully nerf my bus routes by making them short and making them end at metro stations in order for people to be willing to change from bus to metro instead of taking various buses the whole way. Is it because the buses are more frequent? Because they have more narrowly spaced stops? Is the metro somehow not actually faster than the bus? Something else?
I only have the base game and not any expansions so I can't build trams to bridge the gap, I have to either let my cims wait at stops by the hundreds or build a metro for them. When I'm making a metro line I usually use the highest-capacity model which is 500 in the base game, and it's not clear to me why I'd ever choose a train with less capacity if the price is the same. If there's something superior about any of the other models then I'm not aware of it.
I only have the base game and not any expansions so I can't build trams to bridge the gap, I have to either let my cims wait at stops by the hundreds or build a metro for them. When I'm making a metro line I usually use the highest-capacity model which is 500 in the base game, and it's not clear to me why I'd ever choose a train with less capacity if the price is the same. If there's something superior about any of the other models then I'm not aware of it.