Cause of Death: Traffic
Had nice "roundabouts" dealing with the traffic, then I gave into the industry demand. Too much heavy traffic, too costly to restructure my entrance and needed loans... the new entrance failed to take care of the traffic and the loans made me start to lose money. 2 minutes later I hit the bailout screen and left it for dead.
This game is awesome though. Simplistic, detailed, pretty, buggy, and moddable like whoa. I think I have 300+ workshop items installed already.
If you have it, I highly recommend the tree brush mod, ground level FP camera(s), 1x1 parks, autosaver, and purple pollution remover. If you are dumb like me and like to fail, no despawn for traffic is awesome as well (hence this first fail).