Quotes About Transportation

In my state, I created a Clean Energy Fund and invested in electrifying our transportation system - from vehicles and buses to transit and even ferries.

Vehicles are just something I have always felt connected to whether it is the bus or the plane.

As a frequent rider of the subway myself, I cannot count the number of times I have had to personally intercede in a physical or verbal altercation, whether on the platform or in a subway car.

The transportation sector is the largest contributor to Vermont's greenhouse gas emissions, so prioritizing a transition to green transportation is essential.

Where are we going?" I asked, clinging for dear life to the armrest. "The school," she said. "What school?" I asked her, wondering if the roar of the engine had hidden an important part of our conversation.

There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to

The thing about mass transportation is that it transports the masses.

What's funny is that everyone's so appalled by the notion of hitchhiking now, yet it's totes fine if we pay five dollars for the privilege of riding in a stranger's Lyft.

Automobiles and horse wagons filled the streetcar's wake, and Rye stood at that intersection for a long time, staring at the tracks. The whole country was laced together with tracks. He could get on a train and end up in New York City if he wanted, and this felt like another reverie, or a premonition. The world was becoming a single place.

I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.

....I'd rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target.

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place.

I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.

Red Hook is cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and has no subway access, forcing residents to rely on the bus, their feet or, for those lucky enough to afford it, a car.

We're not going to attract new businesses if we don't have safe subway systems where everyday employees are able to get to their work in a safe manner.

I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.