Quotes About Transport

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors that transport them to another country.

By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads in the Barbados Labour Office and the NHS appealed to West Indian women to come to Britain and train to become nurses.

The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

Roads are not practical in Africa.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

Fine," I grumbled. "We'll take your lame yet highly fuel-efficient car.

Red Ball moved over 400,000 tons in three months, and eventually was supplemented by other routes with names like White Ball, Red Lion, and Green Diamond. But as one major general in Paris lamented, "It was the greatest killer of trucks that I could imagine.

A rider galloping into a station had only to free his mochila, throw it over an already saddled fresh horse, and he was on his way.

including wagons, camp equipage, arms, ammunition, donkeys, buffaloes,

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

Each day the traders are kidnapping our people—children of this country, sons of our nobles and vassals, even people of our own family. . . . This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated. . . . We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass. . . . It is our wish that this kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves.

Denmark was the world's largest exporter of beer in 1972. An illustration showed how Ålborg's infrastructure was likely to look in 1990: subway, a raised monorail around a city that the artist seemed to have modeled on something taken from the Liseberg Amusement Park. Mass transport by helicopter. Winter envied that era's faith in the future.

When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops—troops, munitions, and guns.

Every time I go from Manhattan to either Boston or DC, I endlessly ruminate about whether to take the train or the shuttle.

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

Cars are environmental enemy number one. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

When I was kid, one of the big things was watching all the cattle trucks and wheat trucks coming through town.

Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere.