Quotes About Traffic

an officer on traffic control. "Welcome to the party," he said

There's a widespread view that the public sector from the private sector than the other way around. But the traffic seems to me to go in both directions.

Smoking in silence as she concentrated on navigating through the increasingly heavy morning traffic, Strike noted how much he liked making her laugh. He also recognized that he felt much happier, much more comfortable, sitting here in this ramshackle Land Rover talking inconsequential nonsense with Robin than he had felt last night at dinner with Elin.

He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.

The vigilant cyclist expects serious ineptitude from strangers in traffic, and therefore is not surprised or angry when it has to be endured. The vigilant cyclist keeps the head up and the eyes forward unless absolutely necessary to look elsewhere. The vigilant cyclist is not a trusting cyclist, but makes up for this lack with a load of patience. [...] The vigilant cyclist will not be faked out or lulled into complacency by the semisadistic urban spirits and their tricks.

we secretly enjoy rush hour; drive-time is the only time most of us are ever alone.

Although blaming traffic for being that late seemed almost comical to him, he held back from calling her on what he imagined was a passive-aggressive stunt.

By threatening to strip the others of their oil traffic, the Pennsylvania had placed the Erie and New York Central in a vulnerable position, and Rockefeller and Flagler decided to use this leverage to wring extreme concessions from them.

ginning up municipal revenue with a radar gun out on the highway, now prowling

The traffic rolled on, but strangely, always moving but very slowly, as if every driver was a movie guy shooting a scene in slow motion.

Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It'll finish when the oil runs out.

absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic.

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.

Favor não grudar na minha traseira: corpo no porta-malas.

Pedestrians were few, and cars barreled past with whining snow tires, in a hurry to be elsewhere.

Qwilleran drove with clenched jaw, enduring the stares and glares of motorists who passed him, their fretful horn-honking and hostile tailgating.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

MMA RAMOTSWE observed speed limits for two reasons. One of these was that she believed that laws were there to be obeyed, and that if everybody drove as fast as they liked there would be mayhem on the roads.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Who cares if you know for sure that many millions will ignore the law, and thousands will die each year because of it. Same thing with this. The danger of addiction and traffic fatalities will be gladly overlooked and accepted. Cell phones still cause numerous deaths, but nobody has the nerve and audacity to suggest we stop using them." No one spoke for several long seconds.

research has suggested a link between liberal marijuana policies and low traffic fatality rates. Studies from the Dutch Institute for Road Safety, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Administration, the United Kingdom Transport Research Lab, Colorado University, and Montana State University have all come to the same conclusion: postlegalization, Colorado experienced a drop in both traffic fatalities and beer sales.

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

Miss Stephens, observing the chaos that was normal for central London at that hour of the day, observed, 'This is very disorganised. Cannot it be better arranged