Bulldozing road causes vehicles to despawn nearby

Article verified: January 2022

Symptom

• When I bulldoze or alter a road, cars that were just about to drive on to it despawn instead of finding a different route

Cause

There were two bugs in TM:PE versions 1.10.17 and earlier:

• #86: Delete a road and vehicles despawn rather than reroute
• #218: Deleting, upgrading, or otherwise updating a road makes vehicles despawn instead of recalculating their route

There is also a bug in the vanilla game:

• #277: "Vibrating nodes" vanilla bug causes traffic to despawn

Solution

1. Make sure you are using the latest version of TM:PE (must be at least v10.18 or later).
2. Ensure you only have one copy of TM:PE subscribed (don't just disable other versions, completely unsubscribe them)
3. Remove any broken nodes. See: How to remove ghost nodes and broken nodes.

Fixed?

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Other problems? See: Troubleshooting