What about Public Transportation ???

[Trachmyr]

Yeah, Service Station and Garages would also be needed.

How about making service station give a "range", and vehicles can only operate in this range (except for ox-carts, etc.).

And Garages, while you don't need them, they pay the add'l maintanince of "vehiicle upgrades" for building in their range (or a large %)...  they also bring in revenue if the people own vehicles.

Also, to have these "vehicle upgrades", the building must be connected to a road infratructure (i.e., a road must be within 2 tile, and the road must have at least 25 connected segments)

[Tri-ang]

Pardise Island has transportation metioned as one of the random events in the instruction booklet. However this just seems to be Marine / Air workers strikes, cutting off your island for short periods of time...
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[Coconut Kid]

One very important thing that was left out of the game was some sort of public transportation. ...

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

Land vehicles were cut from the game because there simply was not room for the code within the limitations of the PCs of the era.

T3 added roads and cars in a completely new game engine. They produced massive traffic jams.

The expansion pack to T4 has added the complete fantasy of a "subway" to move people without traffic jams.

[Coconut Kid]

... This is not a game quirk, it is a design bug. Too many people complain about this problem for it to be corrupted file. I have reloaded the game three times and used the patches. No luck. Just slackers everywhere. This really detracts from the enjoyment of the game. ...

It's really sad that the designers never answered this flight of fancy. The expectation that the game should work as you expect rather than your having to find out how the game actually works.

BAH!