Quotes About Transportation

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

San Francisco deserves to be a great bicycling city where every day is Bike to Work Day.

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

When Henry Ford invented the Model-T, women shed their bloomers and put sex on the road.

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our goal of better, faster transit.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

If it were possible - and I hope it will be some day - I'd like some sort of anti-gravity travel capsule: some way to travel around the without the need for jets and wings and so on.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.