S&S News: SimCity 3.0 Update Coming This Week

EA has announced that the 3.0 Update for SimCity will be coming later this week, all of the changes are below.  

It's a pretty massive update that will focus a lot of Traffic fixes, among a host of other fixes.  

New: Added more Hotel models to increase hotel variety.

Traffic: Updated routing system to improve traffic. Routing system now understands more information about u-turns, required vehicle stops, and vehicle behavior on certain road types. This should make traffic smarter.

Traffic: Commercial and industrial buildings stagger their work shifts to start throughout commute hours instead of at the top of the hour. This should reduce traffic.

Traffic: Fixes one issue where a car won't move causing traffic to back up behind it.

Traffic: Vehicles can now make right turns on Red. This should improve some cases of traffic.

Traffic: Trading polish that will improve regional traffic when one city has a lot of jobs and its neighboring city has a lot of workers.

Air Pollution: Fixed more issues where cities that placed air polluting buildings received large amounts of air pollution from unknown sources.

Service Vehicles: Fix for disappearing service vehicles on cities that whose vehicles had disappeared before update 2.

School Buses: Fix for issue where school buses were getting stuck at neighbor's city or arcology.

Audio: Tuned audio on French Police Station.

Trading: Fixed issue where fire servers were not trading consistently between Brakeman's Folly and Twain in Whitewater Valley.

Trading: Sewage trading: Sewage will now take a more direct route to regional sewage plant instead of throughout the city.

Trading: Made gifting more reliable.

Ferry Terminal: Ferry Terminal can now send its sewage to the output pipe and treatment plant.

RCI Tuning: Fixed issue where sims going to a park via transit would sometimes lose their money or happiness on the way home.

RCI Tuning: Bulldozing abandoned or rubble buildings will now prevent new developments for 6-12 hours.

RCI Tuning: Less Happiness is taken from wealth 2 and 3 buildings when rent is due when no money is present.

RCI Tuning: Fix for issue some users experienced where buildings would stay abandoned because moving trucks would not be able to move in.

Trees: Trees now last longer, but also do not eliminate as much ground pollution.

Radiation: Radiation causes less ground pollution than previously.

Transit: Changed thought bubble suggestion to add more trains to deal with crowded passenger trains to suggest that you add more train stations.

Transit: Improvements to lights to make rail look better at night.

Transit: Streetcar stops can now be placed directly on standalone streetcar tracks, and passengers can walk along the tracks to them.

Transit: Tuned the chance buses or streetcars will go to high-traffic stops first as a minor traffic improvement.

Roads: University pedestrian paths can now cross streets.

Manufacturing Trucks: Fixed issue some users experienced where manufacturing trucks left the city and were lost permanently.

Delivery Trucks: Fixed issue where some users would experience a loss of resources is their delivery trucks returned to garages without proper storage.

Sports Parks: Tuned the amount of skateboarders and neighborhood athletes at the sports parks.

Data Layers: Zones are now visible in heavy data layers.

Edit Mode: Added more valid snap points in edit mode. This improvement is most noticeable on Parks.

Buildings: Addressed some cases where buildings would stack on one another.