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Quotes About Transportation

Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.
~ Adam Haslett
People don't cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we're a destination state.
~ Gretchen Whitmer
I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.
~ John Zimmer
When we fall short of meeting community needs - for stable housing, safe streets, open space, reliable transportation, food access, a healthy environment - everyone faces greater vulnerability.
~ Michelle Wu
Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
~ Craig Federighi
I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
~ Kurt Vile
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
~ Sal Albanese
We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.
~ Glen Campbell
When we grew up, we couldn't wait to get our hands on cars, work with them, change the look of them. Now you see kids being like, 'I'll just take the Uber,' or 'Oh, I don't even have my driver's license yet.' I'm like, 'Ugh, who are you people?'
~ Scott Borchetta
As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.
~ Tom Felton
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
~ Aaron Neville
We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
~ Elizabeth Esty
In parts of the world where basic infrastructures like paved roads and transportation systems are underdeveloped, people walk for days to reach a health care provider.
~ Christy Turlington
I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.
~ Julia Glass
Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
~ Ramon Rodriguez
In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.
~ Enrico Colantoni
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.
~ Matt Skiba
I can't support bike lanes.
~ Rob Ford
We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city.
~ Ayanna Pressley
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
~ David Byrne
If people don't want a bullet train, then it will not happen.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.
~ Bradley Wiggins