Quotes About Transportation

whatever some Prius fans may believe, it turns out that Priuses do have a corporeal form, and a Prius in congested traffic will cause more emissions indirectly by slowing other cars down than it will emit directly.

Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.

before long there were also pneumatic tube networks in Vienna, Prague, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Dublin, Rome, Naples, Milan, and Marseilles. One of the most ambitious systems was installed in New York, linking many of the post offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. This system was large enough to handle small parcels, and on one occasion a cat was even sent from one post office to another along the tubes.

Right now we think of manufacturing as happening in China. But as manufacturing costs sink because of robots, the costs of transportation become a far greater factor than the cost of production. Nearby will be cheap. So we'll get this network of locally franchised factories, where most things will be made within five miles of where they are needed.

One reason so much money is flowing into the service frontier is that there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product. The number of different ways to recast transportation as a service is almost unlimited. Uber is merely one variation. There are dozens more already established, and many more possible. The general approach for entrepreneurs is to unbundle the benefits of transportation (or any X) into separate constituent goods and then recombine them in new ways.

What kind of world would this postrailroad era be for California, now that it was less than a week's journey from the East Coast?

It may be too soon to tell, but extrapolating from current trends indicates that mobility will play an ever more important role in society and economics in the future than today:

If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

Again, remember to bring a number of $1 bills for ferries, taxis, etc., or you will be going home with a lot foreign currency.

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Frances Leonardi sat in the back seat of the yellow school bus. Occasionally, she looked back at the vehicle traveling close behind them. It was a fortified army surplus Jeep driven by a court officer. Sheriff's deputy Elwood Mills, armed with a shotgun, sat in the passenger seat.

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!

point had been reached, the host, his business done, took his guests back to town in the automobile upon which he had not as yet paid a cent, dropping them

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

had to beg a fare in the metro—missing the

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Elizabeth lifted her head and glared at him. "I don't want you to take me home. You're fired." "So you told me. I'm taking you home anyway. You can fire me again when we get there." "Okay." Her head dropped to his shoulder, and she was blissfully quiet on the ride home.

Taxi crabs & murdercycles

men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.