Cities: Skylines is not in any way realistic.

There is a youtuber who specifically makes challenges in how he can make the most fucked up city.

In one episode he created a city which had one man made lake. That became the exclusive drinking water. It also becsme the exclusive drinking water. Then he build a dam right through the middle. Then he moved the drinking water, and the waste to one side and clean water on the other side. He wanted human waste to power the dam, which creates electricity to power the town.

Are you SURE you want these people in charge in real life???

So that they too can deal with drivers who refuse to use anything but the rightmost or leftmost lanes.

Building car free cities is unnecessary hard in this game though.

No. You haven't seen how much i can fuck up a city that is a nightmare to live in but still somehow works. That'll give them juat ideas. Leadership should be required to live in the worst part of the city they are responsible for.

BRT is significantly more efficient than LRT in this game, which doesn't reflect the real life counterpart much. Also roundabout doesn't work, and since driver doesn't speed or break the traffic rule in this game then there no need for it, which is what city planner in reality always think driver will do, so road is wide and straight, full of cross road and traffic light, and no roundabout or traffic calming measure.

Hmm… maybe. On the other hand, you can do totally messed up stuff because you’re the absolute dictator of the city.

See that suburb there? Yeah, we’re changing it to a highway intersection, so everyone living there will just have to relocate. I don’t care where. It’s their problem. I’m just designing a highway system here, and couldn’t care less what happens to the people who happen to live in the wrong place. It’s their fault they decided to live there.

See this hospital here? Yeah, we’re relocating the whole thing somewhere, because it’s in the way of my new monorail system. We need to put the station right here. Oh, and that residential block needs to go too. There should be shops right next to the station. Not my problem if you liked to live here before.

Another day in a growing city, and this was just the tip of the iceberg. It can get so much worse.

I would settle for any territory based real time strategy game just to show they understand how simple econonic models work.