I've played multiple games of Train Fever and every time I get to about 1940, my train systems become obsolete because of cars. Cars seem to take more than half of my passengers away, infact the best way to try and make as much money as my trains used to is by setting up Large Country Roads with bus lanes and making inter-city Bus systems. The reason I think that train's are made obsolete is because, 1) It seems everyone can get a car(shouldn't be the case), 2)Not enough growth and people to have genuine mass transport. I'm in the year 1980, I have a Hub City in the centre of the map that has 7 train networks, one to each other city. Every city has two local bus networks and its own goods source. Yet my hub city has got only 700 population and my second largest has 400 population. I cannot use trains at all because they all run deficits. If the cities grew quicker, the mass amount of people would cause more people to use the train, and if car availability could be properly limited then the game would involve true mass transport.
I would like a mod that:
-- Increased population growth rate in cities
-- Added more streets and expanded cities more every year than they currently do
-- Limited the percentage of a cities population that could own a car
Cheers.