Though Blade Runners are able to use Spinners, that perk is for work only. So whenever you clock out, you walk out into the same streets as everybody else below the 100th floor. Yet even when you’re on the job, Blade Runners work in crowds far more than clouds, so most of your day is spent like any other LA citizen – relying upon public transit and walking those sidewalks on your own two feet.
METROKAB : With fossil fuels being prohibitively pricey, there are few personal automobiles on the road. Most ground cars belong to the vast network of ever-available, always-affordable Metrokab taxis, tuk tuks, and pedicabs. If you want to rest your feet or get out of the rain, tuk tuks are the most common and convenient way to get around. However, the streets are forever overflowing with pedestrians, so it’s often faster to join the mob and walk. Just watch out for the cyclists. These professional couriers on the clock have mastered slaloming through the crowds at breakneck speeds. Quite literally if you accidentally step into their path.
PUBLIC TRANSIT: If you’re low on funds, just flash your badge and ride any Metro commuter bus or train for free. Buses are congested and take forever to get anywhere, but the masses at least part for them as they frequent multiple stops in each Sector. If you need to hopscotch between Sectors faster, there’s a Metrorail station in each Sector’s main Shopping District, running a 24/7 automated loop round the city, soaring one Sector to the next in 10 minutes flat. All Metro stops and stations have trafficators that list the next arrival and departure times. Wait 30–60 minutes at any stop or station, you’re destined to see one.
GROUND CARS : No cop can afford a Spinner on their salary. You could save up and arguably afford a ground car, but you’d have no safe place to park it. Any unattended car is looted in minutes. Thankfully, Metrokabs are cheap and ubiquitous, and public transit is free for LAPD employees, so unless the leg room and bragging rights of owning a ground car is worth that much to you, few ever feel the need to own a car these days.