[REWORK] AZ, CA, and NV public research and rework suggestions.

[dj212]

I noticed the new high-speed rail viaduct near Fresno is visible in Street View now:

https://goo.gl/maps/xjTiRGtUttMHyAoN8

It's not very pretty to look at, but it might be worth including as a landmark. CA-99 through the Central Valley can be pretty monotonous, and the viaduct breaks it up a bit.

[Louno Trucker]

A rework of I-80 in Nevada would be a good idea.

[Glutinous Rice]

All exit numbers along Interstate 580 in Nevada have been changed. https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/carso ... to-change/
They should be updated in the game. The old and new exit numbers can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstat ... #Exit_list.

[Rozhdestvo]

I agree with you Flight except Fresno fictional road. It should be deleted. And instead of we could get CA 180- CA-198 and following roads which exist in real life. Even if this fictional road looks cool. We need realism the most like in the newer DLCs. I think California needs a lot of rework. Nowadays I avoid as much as possible.

[Bedavd]

I'd love to see some better real world representation of the roads between Fresno and Huron. CA 198 would be perfect, plus there's tons on smaller farm roads that could be used to just cut across the valley.

[plinio.lisboa.br]

CALIFORNIA - The largest ecological crossing of animal life (Biggest in the world) on the road: The crossing will start in 2021 and will be completed in late 2023.

A planned wildlife crossing on the 101 Freeway between Agoura Hills and Calabasas, which will be the largest of its kind in the world, is scheduled to begin in 2021.

The crossing is being built to give wild animals a way to cross Highway 101 and avoid being hit by any of the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that pass through the area daily.
"Crossing will save the local mountain lion population from extinction, serve as a global model for the conservation of urban wildlife," says Beth Pratt, in an interview with CBS.

"The 165-foot-wide crossing will span 10 feet along 10 lanes on 101 Freeway on Liberty Canyon Road, according to the National Wildlife Federation."

"The plans envisage that the top of the structure will eventually be covered by almost an acre of native vegetation so that it can sustain wildlife and provide the habitat, shelter, food and water that different species need to survive."
Reference: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10 ... 8ozgg75lvA


Location of the area where the wildlife crossing on Highway 101 will be built:
Link google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1381109 ... a=!3m1!1e3
reference picture for reserch: https://www.geographyrealm.com/caltrans ... alifornia/

380 Panorama degrees. Link Street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1385612 ... 384!8i8192


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Passage of animal life conceptual design of the project.

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Aerial perspective of the place of passage of animal life in conceptual mode.

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Conceptual image of the project whose main objective is to save mountain lions from extinction.

[plinio.lisboa.br]

Picacho Peak Arizona.
we will leave here some more material that may be useful for making graphic improvements regarding the highway, I-10, between Picacho Peak State Park and its surroundings.

Watch on YouTube

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkhgLE0D2hs

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Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ST8XpklhDg

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Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0wF2Stdnfs

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Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZUmVQCl0s

Perhaps these images can collaborate to make some kind of very interesting and recreational material about this area for American Truck Simulator players when they are traveling on this highway between the city of Phoenix and Tucson.

Picacho Peak State Park : https://www.google.com/maps/@32.6454252 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Perhaps parking the truck in this location or any other vehicle Perhaps it is possible that some special scene of this mountain will appear.


Station fuel Shell - Picacho Peak Park.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.6478938 ... 312!8i6656
This gas station can allow the trucker player to exercise very good camera control to travel in an aerial way surrounding the camera movement over the mountain and viewing the traffic and many details of the area adjacent to the mountain.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.6494632 ... 384!8i8192
This site also allows it to be used for creativity to make innovative scenes using the new features that SCS Software has created for special events.
This is a place that could be a small discovery allowing access to different mountain views with special camera control over this part of the map.
Players could make amazing scenes with camera control having the mountain and the highway, in a camera shift system it is very similar to the drone.

[plinio.lisboa.br]

------------- Newman Peak ----------

It also offers some possibility of gameplay. Why at the base of this mountain is located one of the water pumping units, for the irrigation channels of the Colorado River waters that are transposed from the original river, through a system of channels for agricultural areas in the state.

Drones view Newman Peak

Watch on YouTube

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One of the possibilities of gameplay close to this mountain as mentioned is one of the pumping stations that certainly needs several types of materials, so that the site can continue to perform its essential water supply service for agricultural farms in the state.


1 - [Brady Pumping Plant/b]
Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8170387 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Street view: Not available.
This pumping station transports water to the next pumping station and transports water through an underground channel through the mountain.
This place is also lit every night with a beautiful lighting system.

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2 - Picacho Pumping Plant . Newman Peak Mointains -
"Picacho Pumping Plant is the eighth pumping plant on the CAP system. Its six 5500 horsepower units have a total capacity of 930 cubic feet per second and lift the water 232 feet". - Central Arizona Project. Facebook,December 4, 2018.

Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7568599 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7588991 ... 312!8i6656

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Reference: https://knowyourwaternews.com

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Reference: https://knowyourwaternews.com/pumping-p ... ent-light/

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Photo: https://www.facebook.com/CentralArizona ... 778140044/
This photo shows it there is pumping action closer.

[Laqueesha]

The reworks should add more new state-specific vehicle variants in addition to those already present (maybe taxis and city buses?). Most visibly, new highway maintenance vehicles should be added to replace the generic orange vans and white pickups the game uses at the moment; basically give them unique ones for each state like is currently done for firetrucks, ambulances, and police cars. They did a good job with those, they should continue with more. Some examples by state below:

Arizona: Traffic advisor truck
California: Van, pickup
Colorado: Traffic advisor truck
Nevada: Van, truck
Oregon: Traffic advisor truck, van
Washington: Pickup, traffic advisor truck

Perhaps even unique state-specific tow-trucks too (examples: California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington).

[dj212]

In California, highway route shields that are on a dedicated post are cut out, instead of being framed by a black rectangle like most other states. Here is an example of a US 97 sign in California:
https://goo.gl/maps/f7Nuo9MvuudMAriWA

And here is a sign for CA 12 and CA 121:
https://goo.gl/maps/f95C5xRfm3jCXVr47

By contrast, here is a US 97 sign in Oregon, which DOES use a black rectangle:
https://goo.gl/maps/PYn5uwmRMCMJmwMZ7

I know this is a VERY minor detail, but because signage is so similar between the states, I think these little differences are worth considering.