Quotes About Transportation

Is it too much to ask for decent transportation during one's lifetime?

I will build a motorcar for the multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched.

I love driving and I love my car, so letting someone else drive my car is impossible. I drive myself everywhere.

I don't need a driver's license, my Uber driver needs a driver's license.

I didn't have any money to buy a car, so when I got my license I did not have a car at first.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

We're killing lots of dinosaurs though. The trains are helping." "The TRAINS are—" "Only one derailed so far," Urruah said cheerfully.

The first communications revolution gave us the railroads, the car and the airplane; the second one has given us the computer, the internet and the iPhone. Of course, these transformations bring a whole new range of products in their wake. Do you watch Hulu? Read on a Kindle? Find your way with GPS? Shop on Amazon? Listen to Spotify? Get to the airport with Lyft or Uber? Book with Airbnb? Use Instagram? If so, you are a beneficiary of twenty-first-century technological capitalism.

Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment... Self-propulsion, such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

Alexander speculates that no more than 9 percent of the land should be devoted to parking, and most pedestrians probably do feel the less parking, the better. Many

Our trucks run on natural gas.

Nashville bike store: and you'll get hours back in your day and get to work faster.

The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.

Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side.

The bus drives up past the old brick factories of Pawtucket and Woonsocket. Finally, in the distance we can see Boston, where slender homes float above the glass towers. I shudder and minutes seem to take forever, and then the bus arrives.

Since the court migrated so often from place to place, horses, mules, coaches, carts and litters were essential

For example, more baggage animals were needed because Mary's bed often arrived late at its destination.