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Quotes About Transportation

You can't ride home on a bowl of goat.
~ Ron White
My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.
~ Jon Snow
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.
~ Keri Russell
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.
~ Joanna Noelle Levesque
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
~ Norman Fell
I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.
~ Mitch Hedberg
This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.
~ George Lopez
The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?
~ Frank Carson
Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'
~ Jimmy Fallon
Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
~ David Brooks
Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.
~ Jane Jacobs
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
~ Jane Jacobs
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.
~ Jane Jacobs
34,000 passengers
~ Janet B. Pascal
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
~ Janet Napolitano
All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.
~ Janet Napolitano
For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed.
~ Janette Sadik-Khan
The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the year's English Language Learners instruction.
~ Jared Taylor
long commutes make you fat
~ Jason Fried
long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According
~ Jason Fried
Smart people in white coats have extensively studied commuting—this supposedly necessary part of our days—and the verdict is in: long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.
~ Jason Fried
The tracks of the L Train are the manly stubble on the ruggedly handsome face of Chicago.
~ Jason Sweeney
En Lima, capital de Perú, la interrupción del abastecimiento alimentario ha llevado a centenares de miles de habitantes de zonas rurales, que habían emigrado a la ciudad en busca de trabajo, a tener que volver a sus pueblos recorriendo a veces centenares de kilómetros a pie por falta de transporte.
~ Edgar Morin