The incinerator and buildings are on a closed circuit with all amenities apart from the incinerator fully operational. And then leave without ever reaching pedestrian area service points. The amount of garbage your facilities can process in a given time does. Adding another medical center did the trick. Incineration Plant. Point of real life comparison. The landfills had no issues, high budget, and close proximity to the area. When you add more facilities, the game spreads the allocation load between them. I dare not to continue playing until this bug is fixed. Bskn Jan 23, 2018 @ 3:04am. Even when I put down new ones it still won't send more than 1. Players will no longer see the landfill / incinerator not send. Garbage Landfill only send 2 trucks to pickup trash. Incinerator is not working but it is connected to buildings which have garbage piled up. 1511178/ Click to expand. But at the moment my garbage facilities don't send out garbage trucks at all. Your landfills get filled up because all your garbage facilities send dump trucks between each other to try to even out the total load between all the processors. All garbage buildings across all DLC are defaulting to sending out standard garbage trucks instead of their specialized collection vehicles. I'm wondering if someone can help. Waste collection trucks seem to directly return to facility from a pedestrian area service point, regardless if they're full or not. Emptying landfills, or cemeteries, will take away garbage trucks from collection. But that's it. It just isn't sending out trucks. Then it goes to other buildings not overflowing with garbage and is loaded. Traffic is fine everywhere green everywhere. The building just sits there and says Not Operating. Restart your game or try to remove mods for a while to see if the problem persists. Garbage & Deathcare. I started a new city in After Dark and placed a garbage dump on a two way road in my industrial district as soon as it was unlocked. The game doesn't consider distance when sending out trucks and there's no way to force it to without mods. And more incinerators than landfills when replacing them in general. DLC Fix: Garbage Truck AI - Now checks for pedestrian zones before assigning garbage trucks; DLC Fix: Moved building panel launch button on Service Point panel when Repainter is running; Design change: Building panel - Added version information to title to make it easier to know what version you are running Also I'm on Xbox one if that helps. Yes, landfills will need to be emptied when full, whereupon they will empty garbage to the Incinerators. It just isn't sending out trucks. I now have about 500 more people in my city and there are garbage icons all. Support & Bug Reports. A problem that pops up a lot up in my game is residents moving out because the city is full of dead bodies or trash piling up. but they are much more economical when it comes to garbage truck capacity. I thought it was strange no truck came out immediately but since my early residents were still moving into the city I decided it wasn't a problem. Another possibility is that the Recycling Centers are not sending out all of their trucks to collect garbage. When you set the Landfill to 'empty'. 2. kristofburger Jan 17, 2020 @ 2:03am. While you had plenty of garbage facilities, the closest ones were not getting the callouts necessarily. After collecting stuff, the truck will WHOOPSE (despawn) and the garbage will find it way back to land fill (they use portal, dont ask me). DLC Fix: Garbage Truck AI - Now checks for pedestrian zones before assigning garbage trucks; DLC Fix: Moved building panel launch button on Service Point panel when Repainter is running; Design change: Building panel - Added version information to title to make it easier to know what version you are runningThis tends to happen if you have lots of garbage issues in high density areas. There is a power outage on some garbage sites, which then means the other trucks are pulled away from their areas to. Each garbage disposal facility can despatch a certain number of trucks. so, my waste transfer facilities does not sending out trucks to anywhere in the city. If this will also scramble more trucks immediately, I am not sure. You can influence the maximum number of trucks via the budget tab (taxes screen). A mod might prevent them from spawning (mods that allow you to choose what vehicles spawn) #1. i have 5 incinerators a dump and a recycling center (mod) right in the middle of the industrial center. If buildings keep selling to distant places including exporting out of town, they will run out of trucks. If you don’t want to burn your waste, then you must build more and more Landfill sites. doc mod (Banned) Dec 10, 2020 @ 6:01am. In general, see below. ago. Landfill Emptying The landfill is emptying and does not send out trucks to pick up garbage. I even had the budget up all the way, still nothing even spending 32 grand a week on trash. My garbage services send out few trucks (e. Turned out to be that mod causing it. I checked with the Broken Node Detector and i dont see any nodes which are broken. Another possibility is that the Recycling Centers are not sending out all of their trucks to collect garbage. As soon as you can upgrade them, you should switch from landfills to incinerators and not use both types at the same time. Darth Smeith Sep 28, 2017 @ 5:21am. Garbage budget is at 101%. I thought it was strange no truck came out immediately but since my early residents were still moving into the city I decided it wasn't a problem. Check to see if your crematoriums are full, they need time to burn all dem bodies before picking up more. Upvote 1. When I have 7 for 14,000 population in game,. Sacb0y Oct 27 @ 5:19pm. Obviously this can be on both ends. Honestly, this bug is driving me insane. 12. It can store a small amount of garbage and burns it so that it's gone afterwards. Hi all, Been playing for a good few years now and just loaded up today to find that all my garbage facilities are not sending out trucks. Landfill Full The landfill is full and no longer sending out trucks to pick up garbage. #4. In order to move the trash from the landfill to incinerators you must click "Empty building to another facility" on your landfill: After you set it to emptying mode garbage trucks will start transferring. The simulated cities of Cities: Skylines are no exception to this rule. Rough-childvion • 2 yr. There's a huge demand everywhere for garbage collection all over my city and now a wave of buildings (houses, shops) are being abandoned. Dispatches as many garbage trucks as necessary, as long as the landfills/incinerators are not full. Incineration/Landfills "not operating". Anything that uses a special zone (parks, airports, industries) will have their dedicated buildings pile trash at the main building. See if that works. Support & Bug Reports (Archive). You don't really have any, other than add more landfills. The point is, a recycle center might only send out 2 trucks at 20,000/200,000 reserve and 3,000/wk. For a given pattern of trash pickups, garbage trucks. It still says Trash piling up and every garbage facility I click on has 0 out of 19 trucks in use. I'm also having the same problem, the garbage service points and even the old ones not so spawning vehicles and when spawning is 1 or 2, meanwhile the city accumulating garbage. This means that you need a garbage collector near these buildings. It's also extremely slow to actually send anything out, much of the time most shops going out of business due to lack of goods before the first trucks go out. Well, the. If the recycling/trash collectors, when clicked upon are flickering between 0-1 trucks being sent out, check for broken nodes/ inaccessible buildings. . r/CitiesSkylines. Once the landfill. For some reason I'm not getting how garbage collection works. That often means the garbage truck spawning is trying to find a route to a building it cannot access by road. If the travel distance for the loop is simply too much, then you will end up having a loop bug from that also which will then end up with many of the service vehicles being "stuck". . Garbage/incinirators are fully functional, but are only sending 1-2-3 trucks out, despite the city/industry have garbage issues. then the incinerator won't send out trucks because it's already full. In fact, all garbage buildings are defaulting to normal garbage trucks instead of sending out their special vehicles right now. Iniciar sessão Loja Início Fila de Descoberta Lista de Desejos Loja de Pontos Notícias EstatísticasI started a new city in After Dark and placed a garbage dump on a two way road in my industrial district as soon as it was unlocked. I think since nobody wants to live near a landfill, turning it off is seen as a good thing. Probably need another. On the other hand, if the garbage processing. My city is was 225000 with 70% traffic flow, then the garbage pick up went on strike, only 1 or 2 trucks out, hospitals filled up, then the streets became deserted with very little traffic anywhere. I've been playing with infinite money and unlimited demand on because I wanted. Showing 1 - 15 of 27 comments. It's all done by 13 recycling centers from the Green Cities DLC with the "Recycle Plastic" policy enabled. I believe it has something to do with the stations garbage capacity. garbage truck to scavenge efficiently. I look at how many are in use and it flickers between 1 and 0 and placing new ones does nothing. Waste transfer facilities never send out all 20 trucks because their total capacity is larger than the facility can ever hold. Usually this means a truck can not find a path but Ive done 2 things to test if this is so: 1. : r/CitiesSkylines. I don't know why they have that many trucks. Nothing so far, it's still at 100%. Couple more screenshots of my college in Cities: Skylines 2! Used the beautification tools we do have available & think it turned out alright. 7 comments Best Add a Comment WarmMoistLeather • 1 yr. e. Build a new incinerator and turn on the garbage view and watch the trucks and how the plant fills up. I tried that but that just increases the number of available trucks from 15 to 19 but still then only 2 are in use. In a back up save, I would try turning off the recycling services. I saw a garbage truck drive by the airport, but not go in to get the trash. When it happens, it's a show stopper. This is the same with the other 3 incinarators. I've been playing with infinite money and unlimited demand on because I wanted to see how far I can stress my computer and the game. The larger processing facility pollutes heavily and will send out trucks to each transfer station (and maybe landfills?) to bring collected trash back to burn it. Emptying landfills, or cemeteries, will take away garbage trucks from collection. Unfortunately, the nearest truck at that second is across the map. This variant has the two blue streaks associated with the jetblue A320s. In my city I have about 20 if not more garbage facilities and about 10 incinerators. Cities Skylines features a milestone progression system. The new garbage buildings are effectively broken. There are several types of garbage facilities that become available as you progress through the game, and each one will have a set number of trucks that. If you increase the budget, it increases the. the game stops sending out garbage trucks and civilization as we know it comes to an end. I had the same problem, every Garbage building or death care building only spawned 1 or 2 trucks. Once built and operational, your incineration plant will send out a fleet of up to 27 garbage trucks to collect trash from your different buildings, and bring it back to the plant for processing. I can also see the garbage/recycling centres trying to send out garbage trucks to these buildings (e. There is a power outage on some garbage sites, which then means the other trucks are pulled away from their areas to. You need more facilities, not a bugfix. I only see garbage trucks coming from the incinerators and landfills arriving empty and leaving full. My suggestion to OP is to check the landfills themselves and see how many trucks they are all providing, and what their maximum capacity is. We know that the game's been out-and-about for a while now, but Cities Skylines tips and tricks are always needed! Though this awesome city-builder is hardly impenetrable, it took us a fair few tries until we really figured it out. But outgoing from the warehouses are a flat zero vehicles. The number of active trucks is permanently switching between 0 and 1. Garbage trucks are bugged for me. ¿Can you review this issue and fix it? I even started a new citie with 0 mods just to ensure that is not a mod bug or incompatibility. Waste transfer facilities never send out all 20 trucks because their total capacity is larger than the facility can ever hold. I now have about 500 more people in my city and there are garbage icons all. For some reason, all my garbage facitlies decided to not spawn more than 2 or 3 trucks each. I don't know why they have that many trucks. ago It really is. The incinerator won't send out 20 or 30 garbage trucks because that would bring in a larger amount of garbage than what the incinerator can handle. But I can't build a garbage service point until this service point reaches a certain level of trucks per week. Kirjaudu Kauppa Etusivu Löytöjono Toivelista Pistekauppa Uutiset TilastotThere are a handful of those in use. Just make a dedicated road to ur garbage plants and make a one way road going trough there. Hi, I have a new city with a pop of 1525 and 3 Landfill sites. At around 4500 pop, garbage collection seemed inadequate so I added another recycling centre. Slaktarkuno Mar 18, 2015 @ 2:42pm. Place all types of garbage facilities to see if this specific to the type you use. Garbage/incinirators are fully functional, but are only sending 1-2-3 trucks out, despite the city/industry have garbage issues. Do the same for the buildings respectively, make sure they are not placed. in the state that I live in, there is 1 landfill per 355,000 people. Hopefully, we’ll start to see drivers behaving more. Cities: Skylines > General Discussions > Topic Details. Select the full landfill to bring up its building info panel. DarkFaceGlow Jun 12 @ 5:59am. Going from 0/19 to 1/19 and back. It's the nature of the genre, for sure. In short, you must process the garbage to remove it from your city. Pop: 1. Business, Economics, and Finance. Though I have placed severeal Waste transfer facs. 6 of skylines overwatch). It's suppose to be easier on the AI tracking this way. and processing complexes in two different corners of my city and even though I have them well connected by highways, they do not send out trucks. Note, I am not sure yet how the budget affects. ago. Tires – up to 4 car or light truck tires separated from rims; Yard trimmings – bundled for composting; Waste Management has a drop off location near you. It's more apparent with instances of demand, such as fire/medical/police. Originally posted by Mr. This means that the vehicles can not find a viable path from their location to wherever their services were requested. they will send out garbage trucks to. This is happening to me with the current TM PE 11. Login Store Home Discovery Queue Wishlist Points Shop News StatsThat will reduce the number of garbage trucks on the road. Where a fire truck from across the map is still responding to a fire despite the nearest station recently returning a fire truck. Allocated 150% budget. I even had the budget up all the way, still nothing even spending 32 grand a week on trash. I thought it was strange no truck came out immediately but since my early residents were still moving into the city I decided it wasn't a problem. I added incinerators to fix this, but another landfill likely would have done the trick. In order to remove full landfills, you need to empty them into your incinerators. 0-f3 What expansions do you have installed? What mods are you using? None Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible. The limiting factor was not the garbage trucks but incineration capacity. Cities: Skylines > General Discussions > Topic Details. If the trucks in use counter is flickering between 1 and 0, it means the waste transfer facility is inaccessible from the complex due to an insufficient road network. 2. Actually you CAN use landfill with 1 way street :3, just make sure the street is leading FROM it to the area. They do not process (get rid of) garbage. Semi Truck Trailer Prop by Shroomblaze Total Tris = 388 1024 x 512 Maps Lod Tris = 100. Sometimes, this number goes up, but it fluctuates. I checked with the Broken Node Detector and i dont see any nodes which are broken. Currently, 0 garbage collecting is happening. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. I am only seeing 13 trucks max out of 20. It seems like it will work with incinerators too, but it seemed like the incinerator couldn't be too far away, and the manual empty never finished. Monitoring services to ensure that trash dumpers are sent efficiently. If there were 27 garbage trucks out per incinerator and trash wasn't being collected due to driving delays, then traffic would be the culprit. Korcann68 • 20 days ago. Increase budget-> more trucks. • 9 yr. Thaimasker- Mar 15, 2015 @ 3:19pm. I can also see the garbage/recycling centres trying to send out garbage trucks to these buildings (e. This will solve the garbage disposal problem much faster. yet I see a bunch of neighboring cities garbage trucks in my city collecting garbage for free? < > Showing 1-3 of 3 comments . A version of the Waste Transfer Facility with 2x the garbage capacity. No traffic jams. If I knew nothing else I would say that's where the problem is coming from (along with using the newer 1. Existing trucks continue garbage collection and despawn when they are at 100%. Requires you to set a. 7K upvotes · 441 comments. It's also extremely slow to actually send anything out, much of the time most shops going out of business due to lack of goods before the first trucks go out. Feb 19, 2022. If the landfill does not have car road access to your citizens, garbage trucks will not go out. I even had the budget up all the way, still nothing even spending 32 grand a week on trash. I read people's posts on reddit and some other forums but I. And more incinerators than landfills when replacing them in general. Cities: Skylines > General Discussions > Topic Details. Inloggen Winkel Startpagina Ontdekkingswachtrij Verlanglijst Puntenwinkel Nieuws StatistiekenWhen I've seen this, it's a problem with "path-finding". None of the old or newly placed garbage facilities spawn more than 1 truck now. 5. I followed a truck as it left, it went down the road a little ways and vanished. if garbage facilities do not send any garbage trucks that mean they cannot reach their destination. Renato Pierce Sep 20, 2022 @ 9:20pm. In my city I have about 20 if not more garbage facilities and about 10 incinerators. I don't know why they have that many trucks. So they can be used for collecting rubbish, like industrial extractors, and incineration plants, recycling centers and so on can dispose of the garbage, like. The game cannot find a valid path from the landfill to where the truck wants to go, so it despawns. if 7/27 or something is sent out that means garbage trucsk are already on the way. ago Your production is greater than your capacity. Hearses are not collecting the dead, police are not sending out cars regularly, ambulances, garbage trucks, nothing. Official much as garbage trucks as needed, as long as the landfill / incinerator is incomplete. I have tried relocating the landfill sites to see if this helps, but only 1 or 2 vehicles are being used. I noticed that the landfills were sending 1-2 trucks out (constantly flipping b/w the two numbers). Happens with both garbage dumps and recycling centers. I look at how my Landfill sites and cemeteries are handling the situation to see if I need to place more then I see they are sending out a minimal amount of hearses and garbage trucks like 2/15 or something. Your road network is preventing vehicles from following a proper route. I started a new city in After Dark and placed a garbage dump on a two way road in my industrial district as soon as it was unlocked. In addition to the automatic cargo transportation by road via delivery trucks, cargo transportation for rail, water, and air makes a return giving you more control than before. Anyone else having issues with the new Sunset DLC assets? I replaced most of the cities recycling centres and incinerators with transfer sites and built 2 of the new waste processing buildings but the transfer sites just weren't sending out enough trucks. Oldhip Aug 15, 2020 @ 6:13am. Waste transfer facilities never send out all 20 trucks because their total capacity is larger than the facility can ever hold. It automatically enables and disables the emptying of landfills and cemeteries when necessary. A community-led subreddit for the city builder franchise developed by Colossal Order, including…32. An incinerator with 50 trucks will only send out a handful of them. The place is full but sometimes the icon doesn't pop up. For a model for trash pickups, waste collection vehicles. Though I have placed severeal Waste transfer facs. I had once of the recycling centres with 9/18 trucks, the rest and the landfill had 2/18. Originally posted by icedude94: If you have too much excess garbage processing capacity, your city will start importing garbage. If your traffic is bad, rubbish do not get picked up. Make sure the garbage trucks have access to everywhere. Then fast forward for a while. TMCE has a pathing issue and info tab which should give further hints why this happens, if TMCE by itself doesn't fix it outright. If you look at the building information and see the number of trucks spawning flashing up and then dropping again it means that the building is trying to send out garbage trucks but the destination it is trying to reach is unreachable - this could be because of lane arrows, TMPE lane controls or a disconnected road network, e. I have been placing my landfills and incinerators with my industry following the general design of directed high capacity entry and exits using one way roads and freeways. You should no longer see landfills/incinerators not sending out idling garbage trucks, while your city is being overrun by trash. EDIT: I noticed something else with this particular plant. Garbage and dead not picked up. I look at how many are in use and it flickers between 1 and 0 and placing new ones does nothing. otherwise you get landfills emptying into other landfills and all of your trucks. It only send out one or two trucks as the number of trucks it send out kept flickering. Not enough stored mail at the post office and the sorting facility won't collect and sort it. I increased the budget, and nothing happened. The basic and most essential garbage management building. Trucks don't go down one road at get all of the garbage at every house. To get garbage trucks in Cities: Skylines, all you’ll need to do is build a garbage facility. I have a huge pedestrian area, with Everything Delivered on, but barely any garbage trucks spawn in, and the buildings within it seem to generate no trash. Your garbage isn't collected all at once like real life. Your landfills get filled up because all your garbage facilities send dump trucks between each other to try to even out the total load between all the processors. At around 4500 pop, garbage collection seemed inadequate so I added another recycling centre. I even increased the budget for garbage and still have. Every time I start a new city, once I reach 460 citizens, I get a problem with garbage collection. I've never had any issues with that mod, but I don't play with unlimited money or unlocks so I always have landfills and incinerators around. On the contrary, if you turn off the landfill, it makes them happy. 3k and is generating 35t of trash. Those will send trucks to empty trash lots. Conectare Magazin Pagina principală Lista de descoperiri Listă de dorințe Magazinul cu puncte Știri StatisticiMojo ♥ Squad Jun 22, 2016 @ 8:59am. . otherwise you get landfills emptying into other landfills and all of your trucks. Such as an overworked landfill, in an area of high demand pulling trucks from landfill across map to meet the calls for service. If you put it in fast forward and wait ~5-10 minutes, it will get to 65k and start complaining about garbage not being collected. Here’s how to deal with Cities Skylines 2 garbage so you can keep your streets clean, your skies clear, and most importantly, your citizens happy. This model contains 250 Tris and a 128x128. This means one waste transfer facility usually has a maximum of 13 trucks in use at once, because it's the amount of trucks to fill it up should a waste transfer truck fail to pick up the trash in time. I heard it's caused by traffic mods but I highly doubt it since i've. Instead of 20 trucks going in different directions and going to red and orange buildings, about half will follow the exact same route, changing the occasional yellow to. Add a Comment. I tried many things there: redraw the area, demolish the garbage service point and replace it, replace the big garbage service point with the small one, use waste transfer facilities, use recycling centers, using regular landfills. I don't seem to have huge problems with trash trucks specifically, but I may just not have large enough cities yet (10-15k). There is bearly any traffic and i bumped the budget all the. #4. Match Distance Algorithm. e. I also have the 25 tile mod enabled, but only have 6 tiles purchased at the moment. I thought it was strange no truck came out immediately but since my early residents were still moving into the city I decided it wasn't a problem. ago Your production is greater than your capacity. This process will repeat till the a. Me and my girlfriend were working on a city together when we notcied something weird. It's almost like its trying to send them out, but it can't. All you have to do is dig an area where you can dispose of all the garbage in your city. I added 2 additional recycling centres and none of them are sending out more than 1 truck. when I enable it, it clogs the traffic to 20% on its own. So, try to spread them around so that each of them can reach the rest of the city. Note: The garbage trucks from the Waste Processing Complex are an exception in that they do not collect trash from the rest of your buildings. I'm also having the same problem, the garbage service points and even the old ones not so spawning vehicles and when spawning is 1 or 2, meanwhile the city accumulating garbage. ristosal 2 yr. Annoying as hell. 40 items. They need road access and are subject to traffic conditions like many services we will see. My city has a population of 30,000 and traffic is at 80%. I heard it's caused by traffic mods but I highly doubt it since i've had it. Everything could be reached. IIRC those buildings have a cap as to how. Once trash is caught up, then turn back on the dumps and start emptying them. Europa Universalis IV: Tech Support. I don't know why you are generating. Place your landfill between the two towns, instead of in the towns (since you can’t control which landfill the trucks come from). i have 5 incinerators a dump and a recycling center (mod) right in the middle of the industrial center. 3. One garbage truck has a capacity of 20,000 units, which means 13 trucks is exactly what will fill the whole thing (250,000 units). Thread starter canonized; Start date May 1, 2015; Jump to latest Follow Reply. Cities: Skylines City-building game Gaming. Why does this occur? Well, it has to do with the maximum "capacity" of the Recycling Center. If there is a conflicting road direction (e. I started a new city in After Dark and placed a garbage dump on a two way road in my industrial district as soon as it was unlocked. Garbage trucks are not working. Check Garbage in the info view panel. Is there anyone else struggling with this too??? Belépés Áruház Közösség Támogatás Nyelvváltás Asztali weboldalra váltás. Nope, it's a bug. To avoid garbage problems in Cities Skylines, you can implement the policies below. I can't figure out why this is happening. I have a problem with the Garbage piling up beyond belief with about 20% of the city with icons stating so. The first thing I noticed is that the reserve on my 1 incinerator was full, so I added a second. Eliminates garbage and produces resources which can be exported or get distributed to industrial buildings that require them. Garbage/incinirators are fully functional, but are only sending 1-2-3 trucks out, despite the city/industry have garbage issues. ago. 8 × 12 trucks = 96 so a 13th truck is offered. The best way to empty your currently full Landfill is to move all the trash it contains elsewhere. Make sure all garbage facilities can reach all parts of the city. 3) A completely isolated area from where the factory is located. Renato Pierce Sep 20, 2022 @ 9:20pm. The residential buildings I have zoned there are all complaining that there's no garbage service points. When I first laid down the landfill it sent out all it's trucks, once they came back in it's only been one truck at. My city is struggling with garbage. Cities Skylines: All, except for some music packs. I've uploaded my latest save file, which was saved prior to the latest occurrence of the bug being very obvious, so it probably requires the save to be run for a few game days to see. MelonWaffles 2 yr. i placed 4 waste transfer facilities and one waste processing complex. Hi all, Been playing for a good few years now and just loaded up today to find that all my garbage facilities are not sending out trucks. If the incinerator(s) are maxed out, it won't send any trucks out to collect trash, and all trucks that are out will return to the facility and wait. These in turn get filled up very fast, and when full they do not send any garbage trucks out to collect the garbage in the city. One garbage truck has a capacity of 20,000 units, which means 13 trucks is exactly what will fill the whole thing (250,000 units). trash stopped sending trucks . They only collect garbage from landfills and waste transfer facilities. deshi_Meltdown Sep 21, 2022 @ 2:04am. Nearly all the incineration plants in my city have suddenly stopped sending out garbage trucks, they're saying 0/30 trucks in use for every single plant. It's more apparent with instances of demand, such as fire/medical/police. My landfills have stopped sending out more than one truck at a time. Dahlvash Mar 10, 2015 @ 2:46pm. The garbage trucks that are sent out, only go a short distance. I even had the budget up all the way, still nothing even spending 32 grand a week on trash. If you look at the building information and see the number of trucks spawning flashing up and then dropping again it means that the building is trying to send out garbage trucks but the destination it is trying to reach is unreachable - this could be because of lane arrows, TMPE lane controls or a disconnected road network, e. If the trucks in use counter is flickering between 1 and 0, it means the waste transfer facility is inaccessible from the complex due to an insufficient road network. b1ancardi Feb 9, 2016 @ 8:09pm. When I move the clinic or police station they will send out 4-5 cars at once, then within 5 minutes they go back to dispatching 0 cars with it flickering to 1 for a half second. This is why players should stay on top of garbage collection as soon as the service unlocks at 420 population. People were dieing of illness and many many houses had issues with their trash. But everything is on a timer in this game. FYI: Multi-platform Metro stations are (technically) possible! Apparently, you can connect an underground pedestrian path to a node located at the visible end of the Metro station staircase, and cims will use the path to transfer between stations/use the path as an underpass. Created by vasimr22. I now have about 500 more people in my city and there are garbage icons all.