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I have a big city with 173,000 population and there are lots of abandoned structures caused by having too long commute times. I don't have any industrial inside the city because I have them at neighboring cities.

To lower commute time I put bus stops literally everywhere, but I still get long commute time. How can I fix this?

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Having your Sim's jobs exist in neighboring cities automatically makes their commute time long. Frankly, there isn't any fix for that - that's the burden of having jobs in other cities, they take the pollution, you take the commute.

You can prevent having abandoned buildings with a variety of solutions, the simplest being increasing your land values. Placing down parks, monuments, emergency services, or a variety of other improvements will make your Sims tolerate the long commute. They'll never stop complaining about their commute, but the benefits of living in your city will make them stay. Other options like lowering taxes can achieve the same effect.

With that being said, make sure you have enough capacity for your commuters too. With 175k citizens it is very easy for your city to have too many people and not enough buses. Allocate more funding for your transit system or look into other means of locomotion such as railways, subways, highways, or even airports. Right now the problem is "too long of a commute" but it could quickly escalate into "I can't commute at all"

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    Yup. It's been many years since I played this, but when I see "173,000 population" and "bus stops" the first thing that comes to mind is that that's most likely not enough public transportation. I've had plenty of trouble with only buses and 1/3 of that population. Subways aren't very intrusive and would help quite a bit I'd think.
    – Broots Waymb
    Commented Oct 29, 2019 at 20:34
  • I never though that may be the case because I have a bus stop in every street, every block and busses are not used at full capacity but are used at 50-80%. I did find a way to prevent them abandoning. I placed parks everywhere. I also put industrial inside the city (I had to because inner parts wont commit at all) and I put more and more industrial in neighboring cities. I am at 799K population right now and it is going well. thank you for your answers.
    – Özgür Güzeldereli
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 9:13

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