was the bern 1965 simcity scenario based on historical fact

Bern, Switzerland, 1965.

The Player must fix Bern's traffic problem - but this is one very big problem. Almost every zone in the city is isolated from each other, and completely surrounded by Roads.

Bern has a moderate crime rate problem as well, but there is a lot of empty space to work with. Without cheating, the Player may need to partially or completely rebuild the city in phases, maximizing land use while reducing the city's dependence on Roads for Rails.

http://simcity.wikia.com/wiki/Bern,_1965

From 1952, the route of the Bümpliz line ran along the Effingerstrasse and no longer via the Laupenstrasse. This new route was introduced in view of the construction of a high-rise hospital building for the Inselspital. In the early summer of 1954, a traffic report by a Zürich consulting firm suggested the conversion of the entire Bernese tramway network to bus operation. The model for this was the then modern concept of the car-friendly city. This met with opposition from the Bernese population, including demonstrations in favour of retaining the trams. In 1955, work began on the reconstruction of the railway tracks in front of the Eigerplatz depot. Meanwhile, during renovations of the track on the Kirchenfeld Bridge, buses were used frequently to operate a rail replacement bus service to the Ostring.

Lorraine belongs to Berne's so-called inner ring around the city's historical centre. This part of the city was built during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the past 25 years, it suffered a radical change: its working-class neighborhoods became middle-class, with a marked increase in individualized lifestyles. More than half of the districts' households today are single households (Steinen 2007). During the past 30 years, in all big Swiss cities, a dramatic geographical shift of the urban working-class and immigrant population has taken place. In the late 1970s, working-class residents and foreign nationals were the majority in inner city areas. In 2000, however, these social groups were largely concentrated in the Fordist settlements built in the 1950s-1970s at the urban periphery (Statistikdienste der Stadt Bern 2006). The case of Lorraine highlights origins and local outcomes of such urban transformations.

Lorraine was planned and built by private investors as a working-class area in the late nineteenth century. Only the neighborhood's southern part was equipped with an ensemble of higher and more representative buildings.... The greatest part of Lorraine's urban formation was characterized by small brick and wooden houses... which formed small, densely populated housing units.... In the 1960s, the municipality acquired part of the neighborhood's private-owned real estate and houses to demolish. At that time, the muncipality planned to create an express highway going right through the district as part of the planned highways system which would cross Switzerland's capital to give an immediate response to growing mobility and expanding private traffic (Luthi and Meier 1998). The city's planning authorities had proposed a total renewal of the area. According to the urban development paradigm of the 1960s, half of the neighborhood's houses should have been replaced by modern apartment buildings. Areas for housing, work, traffic and leisure were designed to be strictly separated (Planungs- und Wirtschaftsdirektion 1970). But these plans were rejected by Berne's voting population and were never realized, so that the now state-owned real estate in Lorraine remained untouched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmE2Ytq0-SE

Rapid growth and poor city planning has caused traffic to come to a standstill. The highways have become unsafe and the motorists are becoming militant. Since the residents of this city hate to walk, you'll need to come up with a transportation plan quick! Obtain a low average traffic density within 10 years and the citizens of Bern will make you the National Transportation Planner!