Dynamic addition of bike lanes - change lane type from vehicle/parking to bicycle.

[TheBloke]

Describe your idea

Would it be possible for TMPE to add bike lanes by converting existing lanes into bike lanes? Specifically, for the vehicle restrictions tool to be able to add/remove bike lanes from road assets by converting their lane type between "Vehicle" or "Parking" and "Bicycle"?

I recently downloaded the Blank Roads pack, which is quite cool because with TMPE + IMT it allows me to add bus lanes in any custom configuration. However Blank Roads do not include any bike lanes, and to add them I would need to make my own assets.

It would be very useful if TMPE could enable bike lanes on any road, then I could use TMPE + IMT + Blank Roads to provide a complete in-game road builder, with TMPE used to configure bus and bike lanes, and then IMT used to colour them red or green.

I saw #1012 mention issues with creating new bike lanes - eg requiring to rebuild curbs etc. So I thought that, as a restriction, the feature could require use of an existing lane - either vehicle lane (lane is converted from car lane to bike lane), or parking area. So the option to enable/disable bike lane appears only on vehicle lanes and parking areas. Converting a parking area to bike would automatically disable parking on that segment, if not already disabled.

In the asset editor I can easily change the lane type property on a road from "Vehicle" or "Parking" to "Bicycle", so I'm hoping TMPE could do the same thing in-game, on any segment? Ideally, if it's possible, it would also allow configuring the lane direction (backwards/forwards/both) of the bike lane.

Thanks for reading.

[krzychu124]

Impossible without creating new asset if you want to apply it per-segment. Per network type, not a big deal, but maybe not as a part of TM:PE but new mod which could eventually add support for switching lane type/direction per-segment

[TheBloke]

OK thanks very much for the explanation

[originalfoo]

Duplicate of #515