Quotes About Infrastructure

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

I can't support bike lanes.

We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city.

I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

If people don't want a bullet train, then it will not happen.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.

It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan.

This is pool. This is setting up your next shot, and I always want to make sure when we're setting up San Antonio's next shot we have a good shot at making sure that we continue to build our infrastructure in such a way that San Antonio will be a player for years to come in national defense issues.

The roads in Boston suck. Highways included. There are potholes and bumps all over the place. It's not a fun place to drive.

During natural disasters or emergencies, the most resilient communities - places that suffer the fewest casualties and rebuild more quickly - are not the wealthiest neighborhoods or ones that have spent the most on physical infrastructure, but rather the communities with the strongest social infrastructure.

Anybody who wants to cut the gas tax is going to have to suggest to me how we get the money to repair our roads and bridges.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

Henry Huntington shaped the system of transportation which, along with other forces, launched the entire region from Santa Monica to Redlands and from San Fernando to Santa Ana, on the road to becoming the great City of Southern California.

Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them

culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.

Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.

Running a digital infrastructure of global significance is nothing like running a normal business, and yet the law still treats it this way.

America's treasure troves of public and private data, IP, and critical infrastructure continues to be pilfered, annihilated, and disrupted, while an organizational culture of 'Participation Trophy Winners" managed by tech neophyte executives continue to lose one battle after the next.

Among state sponsored hacking groups, Russian APT's approach hacking our critical infrastructure as if they are playing chess; strategically, methodically and with a concentrated focus.