Just shooting out to see if any other amateur city planners are out there.
I just reinstalled the game and went sort of mod crazy (for a laptop user) which ends up in a 44 min loading time but hey, it works.
I'm planning on building a Dutch-like city in European style with lots of canals, churches, museums and ofcourse bikelanes everywhere. I'll use the 81 tiles mod with around 30 other mods and 600 assets which makes my laptop moan like a bitch but once loaded it plays suprisingly fluent.
I can post some screenshots if their is actual interest
Be careful with the mods.
Cities performance decreases drastically as soon as you start building things.