Subways are very expensive, but if we didn't have cars in the city, we would not need them.

One day, 624 Delays (New York Mag) | A post-automobile world?: "Money is naturally behind all the system’s shortcomings. Last year, after the MTA leadership declared a funding crisis, the city committed a record $2.5 billion to the agency’s capital plan, and the state committed $8.3 billion. Even with that new $29 billion budget, only 68 percent of stations will have countdown clocks by 2020."