Garbage trucks, ploughs and tow trucks, the post, phones and the internet.
Once a city has 300 people, its homes expect their rubbish taken away, the post delivered and a phone signal and the internet. Garbage trucks come from a public works depot or an incinerator, on each street's collection day; the post is delivered by the vans of a post office depot (or a mailbox or postal store nearby) and sorted at a mail sorting center; a telephone exchange or cell tower gives a phone signal to the homes in its reach, and a data center keeps homes anywhere in the city online, up to its limit. Hold one in hand and its reach is shown as a green circle.
Build menu: Services > Works
Four snow ploughs and three garbage trucks. The ploughs clear the roads after a snowfall; the trucks collect the rubbish from homes, shops and factories. Needs a wide lot: two lots side by side
Build menu: Services > Works
Three tow trucks. After a crash the nearest yard sends one, lights flashing so traffic makes way, to clear the wrecks and open the road again. With no yard, the police send for a tow from their station, which takes far longer
Build menu: Services > Works
Three garbage trucks, and the furnace the rubbish goes to. Trucks collect from every home, shop and factory within reach on its collection day. Burns clean enough, but keep it a few blocks from the homes. Needs a wide lot: two lots side by side
Build menu: Services > Works
Eight garbage trucks and a waste-to-energy furnace. Collects over a large part of the city. Needs a large lot: two by two
Build menu: Services > Mail
Keeps four mail vans, which deliver the post to every home within reach. The post they deliver is sorted at a mail sorting center. Needs a wide lot: two lots side by side
Build menu: Services > Mail
Sorts the post for 3,000 homes, anywhere in the city: how much it can handle counts, not how far away it is. Build another when the city has more homes than that. Needs a large lot: two by two
Build menu: Services > Mail
A post office counter with parcel lockers. Brings the post to every home within fifteen lots of it, three times as far as a mailbox. The post is still sorted at a mail sorting center
Build menu: Services > Mail
$30. Brings the post to the homes within five lots of it, where no depot reaches
Build menu: Services > Phone
Phone lines for every home within reach
Build menu: Services > Phone
Mobile phone signal for the homes within reach. Small and cheap
Build menu: Services > Phone
Internet for 3,000 homes, anywhere in the city. Build another as the city grows. Needs a wide lot: two lots side by side
The reference pages are made from the game's own data, version 1.8. Numbers can change between versions.