This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to share it anyway:
Recently I got Cyberpunk 2077. I like the setting, I am a big fan of dystopian future. I am also a little radical about public transport in real life. I love to use it, I hate handling cars, I hate looking for parking.
One of the mayor things I noticed playing CP77 was the lack of public transport. I haven’t played a triple A ever and was surprised by the amount of NPCs. Everything felt so right in Night City. Urgency, dirtiness, people everywhere. Now it is coming with the next update. Thinking about it makes me not want to use the in-game car. It just pops up (hardly any waiting involved, weird) and you cannot really park it anywhere. It is just as useless as real life cars, handling is bad (maybe I am a bad driver but still). I love it. Yes, I can fast travel, but for immersion it is great.
As much as I have been excited about the idea of trains in Night City, as a final-stage capitalist society it makes a fuckton of sense that there was no public transportation.
In a capitalist system an inadequate amount of public transport makes sense. It gets people in the lower classes into the upper class areas to work but it puts them out because they have to get in early or run late and risk their jobs.
The poor have to use a large amount of their own personal time getting in to work and get home late. They have to pay more to live near transit hubs in squalor just to make sure they have less connections to get to work. They have to get food from what little food choices are available close to home or pay more for food near work during their down time.
It is perfect for a dystopian capitalist hellscape.