If you actually cared about…

If you actually cared about gridlock on these streets, you'd spend your time and money improving the transit system and subways right under these streets. They carry far more commuters/people/workers/etc. than your surface streets could ever carry in cars.

But you knew this already yet you still act against it. Which means your motives are rooted instead in selfish interests - votes, money, etc. Shameful.