Quotes About Transportation

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Prominent magazine editor and opinion shaper Albert Shaw noted that bad roads "are so disastrously expensive that only a very rich country, like the United States, can afford them.

office inaugurated Rural Free Delivery in 1896, which promised home mail service on roads passable enough to permit it—a mighty popular idea among rural farmers, who until then had viewed good roads and the taxes they required as schemes favoring big-city dandies on their bikes.

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit.

The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the park service, as well as that of everyone else concerned with preserving both wilderness and civilization, to begin a campaign of resistance.

Drivers wanted.

Carriages without horses shall go,And accidents fill the world with woe.

It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.

For some commutes, the time spent stuck in traffic will hit four hours per day.

The British Airways Airbus

I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war.

When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.

Getting the older cars off the road improves public safety as well as environment.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Though we work with rental agencies, a large part of our fleet comprises individual drivers.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I have a bus that's 40 feet long. When I was in training camp, I was scared to fly, so I used the bus.

I hate flying so I always drive.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.