Quotes About Transportation

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.

Drug couriers often use air fresheners—particularly the kind shaped like little fir trees—to cover up the smell of drugs. (Tree air fresheners are known as the "felony forest.")

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?

Mrs. Thomas dropped Kristy off at Watson's

Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

I don't have a driver's license (phobia).

If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island

Say no to parking lots!

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

twentieth-century urban America didn't belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.

For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places.

Najperverznije što je ljudsko bi?e dosada smislilo, ali i vidjelo, medo je na biciklu.

Definitely there are times when I'm tired and don't want to give up my seat on the bus to an old person. But I get depressed, not angry—like about how I'll be an old woman someday, and even more tired than I am now. I never think I deserve the seat more because I am reading a book." Worried this might sound self-righteous, I added, "Maybe it's just because I dont' read on the bus, it makes me carsick.

electrical and water supplies, for example, had to be manufactured, transported to the right places and fitted. The artillery pieces, radar equipment, communications equipment and observation equipment all had to be ordered, transported and installed. But what was built and where and the order in which the sites were selected for the construction work was not

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

Preferring to cry in a motorcycle to a bicycle does not ameliorate a person's pain because it just does elevate his/her suffering from lower level to upper strata to match up to the materialistic gain.

Switching over from the usage of car and motorbike to bicycle for daily commuting within the city is only a befitting reply to the artificial fuel price hike happening regularly.

We need a new set of wheels. Something fast but inconspicuous will do," I said. "And not a hybrid. You know I hate the environment.

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.