SimCity Update 1.7 Now Live, Improves Traffic Congestion

By Matthew Bennett, Associate Editor
Posted on March 20, 2013 AT 05:33am

EA and Maxis have released update 1.7 for SimCity which aims to ease some of those traffic congestion issues that have plagued the game since launch. You can find the full 1.7 patch notes below:

Traffic Improvements: Tuned traffic congestion and fixed some intersection traffic issues.
Traffic improvements: Emergency Vehicles will drive in empty lanes to get around traffic at intersections.
Traffic improvements: Emergency and Delivery vehicles get priority over regular traffic when leaving garage.
All units and buildings can now be demolished using the bulldoze tool.
Performance improvements for low spec systems.
New Server: Asia 2 will be released Tuesday afternoon (PDT)!

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