Quotes About Transportation

Until the advent of fast railway trains, in the late nineteenth century, a skier was the fastest human being on earth.

Practically not a barrel of oil could get to a railroad without [Rockefeller's] consent.

He stressed the displeasure of European investors with American railroads

Why interstate?" "Why do you think the interstates were built? Not so the Harper family could drive from Aspen to Yellowstone Park on vacation. So the Army could move troops and weapons around, fast and easy.

Reacher said, "Our nearest tanks are a thousand miles from Yemen or Afghanistan, and they take weeks and weeks and thousands of people to move. It would be easier to bring Yemen or Afghanistan to them. Also faster and less obtrusive.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Those who came from internment camps in Belgium told how they had been transported across France in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to the trains and the occupants had been left without food or water. Their Belgian guards had robbed them of everything they possessed.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.

Transportation and education pay immense social and economic dividends in the long run, but are difficult to make profitable in the short run.

All this relates to markets, because building a new transportation system is about building a new market system of production and exchange. If you do it right, you make things faster and more efficient. And you need government to do it.

It is only with isvoshtchiki—the drivers of the little open droshkis which fulfil the function of cabs—that he is obliged to use the native tongue, and with them a very limited vocabulary suffices. The ordinal numerals and four short, easily-acquired expressions—poshol (go on), na pravo (to the right), na lyevo (to the left), and stoi (stop)—are all that is required.

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3 5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

Delaware Aqueduct, had been completed in 1945, and ran

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Its low fares made flying an attractive alternative for price-sensitive travelers accustomed to driving or taking a bus. In the early years, a shareholder asked CEO Herb Kelleher if Southwest couldn't raise its prices by just a few dollars since its $15 price on the Dallas–San Antonio route was so much lower than Braniff's $62 fare. Kelleher said no, our real competition is ground transportation, not other airlines.