Quotes About Urban

I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a truck every day. There's inner satisfaction, but 24 hours a day, every day, I'm on duty.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

Traffic terrifies me.

I hate Los Angeles. I hate traffic. I hate people.

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

It's hard to find parking space in Delhi and the traffic sucks there.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

Though I love driving, I am not much of a long drive person. In Mumbai, we hardly have roads for long drives and the highways are mostly clogged up with traffic.

Lyft Line came out of the vision that we've had from the beginning, which is how do we get the most affordable ride to everyone? Eighty percent of seats at all times on the road are empty. In Los Angeles, average car occupancy is 1.1, and if it were 1.3, there would be no traffic.

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.