Quotes About Transportation

Unfortunately, motor vehicles are also responsible for 1.25 million accidental deaths every year (and more than ten times as many serious injuries)

Despite these advances, internal combustion engines remain rather inefficient prime movers and the overall process of converting the chemical energy of gasoline to the kinetic energy of a moving passenger car is extraordinarily wasteful.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

We're in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.