What's amusing (but at times enraging) to me having moved here from a city that is genuinely developing public transport and mass transit and deprioritising inefficient, antisocial and destructive personal transport is not only the ridiculous amount of public space and subsidies given to the latter, not only the absolutely pathetic state of public transport in most of the other 4 boroughs, but the bizarre American mentality that is terrified of improvement if it means losing any of this artificial "freedom" that the oil and motor industry have conditioned so many people to believe they have. In a city like New York. I almost feel sorry for them.