Hmmm, interesting post that outlines some of the fallacies of the original Sim City, specifically:
1. the fallacy that transit costs are mostly in construction rather than operations (a false analogy with highways) and
2. the fallacy that residential and commercial development must always be on separate parcels — no residential towers over retail or even an apartment over the corner shop.
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The transit cost thing effectively amounted to a cheat in SimCity 1.0: if you built only mass transit and zero roads, the residents would bitch and moan about wanting roads but goddamn if it didn’t lead to massive, massive income over the years.