Cities:Skylines has a mod called Traffic Manager which lets you ... manage traffic. It gives tools that are sorely lacking in the base game, such as setting an

Cities:Skylines has a mod called Traffic Manager which lets you ... manage traffic. It gives tools that are sorely lacking in the base game, such as setting an intersection to have traffic lights, timed traffic lights, four way stop signs, two way stops+two way yield, control when/where vehicles are allowed to change lanes, where crosswalks are, whether vehicles are allowed to pull into an intersection if there's not enough space for them to leave the intersection, etc. By default, Cities:Skylines will despawn vehicles that have taken too long to get to where they're going and just warp them there. There's a hard cap on how bad traffic can get. Traffic Manager lets you disable that ... feature. Traffic Manager IMHO fixes the dishonesty you mentioned. C:S with TM is a more complete, more correct, more honest game than vanilla C:S is. There's a youtube channel where most of what he does is takes a city from a viewer with shitty traffic and fixes all the traffic problems.