Quotes About Transportation

The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

Come here and look out this window. You see that contraption down there?" Frank pointed at an automobile sputtering down the street. "I think people are going to buy quite a few of these new buggies and they need gasoline to make 'em go. It may be the thing of the future. There might only be a few gas wagons now, but someday there will be millions of the things. Oil is only twenty-eight cents a barrel right now. But what will it be in ten years?

Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

doña Venjamón, dama de puerta mayor, dos asientos en el tranvía, uno para cada nalga, y ocho varas y tercia por vestido.

As the car goes its way, some people seek escape from the necks by staring at the progress-meter above the door—the light that hops from one number to the next. A glance is all that is necessary, but some riders follow the progress, floor by floor, trying to guess where it will stop next. A few—probably habitual readers—spend the time reading the city inspection permit above the control panel.

It is sad, in a way, that the exploding auto is going the way of the old red streetcar, the horse-drawn milk wagon, the ice truck and other traditional and practical forms of transportation. A shotgun blast from a clump of bushes is nice in its own way, but for drama there is nothing like instant depreciation of a car with a gangster at the wheel.

It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As

If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.

It's no secret that traffic in the Seattle area is a challenge. The Eastside may be worse.

Present-day culture, social relations, cityscapes, modes of production, agriculture, and transportation have remade the traditional proletarian into a largely petty bourgeois stratum whose mentality is marked by its own utopianism of "consumption for the sake of consumption." We

The importance of roads is not a small matter in any state that's seeking for development both economically and politically.

BMT subway, where

British colonists promoted a dual agenda: one involved reducing poverty back in England, and the other called for transporting the idle and unproductive to the New World. After

With hindsight, Napoleon might have done better to build steam ships

cars powered by solar panels that fit into the trunk

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

Thousands of bushels of grain would ferment and rot at one station; hundreds of barrels of meat stacked at another, while the army starved because [of] 'no transportation!

He noticed, without surprise, that the two cats had come along, even though he had not specifically included them in the transportation spell. Cats were like that.

I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.

Did I mention you're going to have to drive on our date?" I asked. "Cheap bastard.

One if by Land Cruiser. Two if by C-class Mercedes. The bougies are coming! The bougies are coming!

My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can't afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively.