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I am playing on playing on -BTPro.nl- #27 - CITYBUILDER APHID's - 12000pop|TEMPERATE|1980-GOAL and the cities that I am trying to get mail and passengers from are not growing to help meet the demand of my city i am building! is this intended?

Well, it's CityBuilder. So if you get your goods from towns, then yes, it's intended! Since you have to grow those towns to...
If these are cities which you are talking about, it's a different story, these should provide for more then enough resources to get towns going! These Cities are marked with a sign: CITY