Not every place in the country is going to be like Manhattan, and certainly not everybody wants to live in Manhattan, but it really is the case that New York City can't be New York City without a massive reasonably well-running subway system, along with all of the other elements of the transit system. There isn't room for all the cars. It's fine if a New Yorker like Cuomo never uses it and isn't personally into transit, but he should get that the city can't function in anything resembling its current form without it. Stop
taking the money.