New Lego City Planning with New Roads

[sleeper37]

I’m in the beginning stages of setting up my Lego city.  I’ve built the modulars on MILS plates and am incorporating the new road plates.

I decided to extend the sidewalks 4 studs and connected the roads.  Now, as I add roads, they don’t line up with the buildings.  They’re 4 studs short of lining up with the buildings at the back.

Am I doing it right?

[Aanchir]

It was a little hard to understand your specific issue without pictures, but I think I've figured out the gist of your issue. In general, the MILS system (like the modular buildings themselves) is based around 16-stud or 32-stud increments. So the width of the road surface plus the width of sidewalk extensions on either side (beyond the edge of the modular baseplates) has to add up to an increment of 16 studs.

Based on your description of your layout, I'm assuming your roads are around 16 studs wide with 4 stud sidewalk extensions on either side. That adds up to just 24 studs, so you're 8 studs short of MILS compliance (4 studs on each side of the road/each end of a city block).

There are various ways you could potentially fix this: expand the width of your sidewalks by four studs more, expand the width of your roads by four studs on either side, add bike lanes to your roads, and/or remove the 4-stud sidewalk extensions entirely. Which option works best for you probably depends on the needs of your city (e.g. how much space you prefer to have for vehicles and/or pedestrians). All that matters is that everything adds up to multiples of 16.

[OhioMinnInd]

Not trying to change from the topic but is there a link or set number for the new roads?

[Vilhelm22]

On 2/19/2021 at 7:14 AM, sleeper37 said:

I’m in the beginning stages of setting up my Lego city.  I’ve built the modulars on MILS plates and am incorporating the new road plates.

I decided to extend the sidewalks 4 studs and connected the roads.  Now, as I add roads, they don’t line up with the buildings.  They’re 4 studs short of lining up with the buildings at the back.

Am I doing it right?

Pictures would be helpful so that we can visualise the problem.

7 hours ago, OhioMinnInd said:

Not trying to change from the topic but is there a link or set number for the new roads?

60304

[OhioMinnInd]

Thank you!

[Driver Brandon Grumman]

I'm actually redoing the plans for the roads on my town. I need to redo it to accommodate the new road plates.