Quotes About Transportation

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS

Transportation didn't get safer just because people learn from errors, but because the system does. The experience of the system is different from that of individuals; it is grounded in filtering.

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste (unsold inventories), rather than the cost at the farmer level.

but when I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering and those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up and waiting I get quiet inside I get what other men get from other things I just feel better and it's good to feel better whenever you can not needing a reason.

There have been water highways in the forest since before Columbus.

Even with animals, though, the Olmec would not have had much use for wheeled vehicles. Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling's horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently. In addition one might note that Mesoamerican societies were not alone in their wheel-blindness. Although Mesopotamia had the wheel in about 4000 B.C., nearby Egypt did not use the wheel until two thousand years later, despite being in close contact

concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing aluminum tube of intercontinental goodness into my imaginary mouth—it's a Boeing 777 or Airbus A330 and it's nearly two miles away, a distantly rational part of me realizes—

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

Restrictions on mobility will be removed as cars become driverless. We'll be chauffeured, basically.

At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

I drove motorcycles through college. I didn't have the money to buy a car.

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.

but cheap transportation made all these things available to the masses.'°