Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
Their subconscious* means
"We are not like Amsterdam, we don't make tough choices..."
Of course, consciously they are thinking Amsterdam is just lucky, nothing we can do about it here.
* ok probably not. More like their brain IF they allowed it to continue to flourish the way they did when they were a constantly curious kid.
