Quotes About Congestion

On-demand ridesharing can make cities less congested and polluted and free up resources. Shared rides can become so affordable that they cost the same as a bus ride today.

There are too many people for this town. - China, about Roarhaven

I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

installed in Europe. Berlin had only 120,000 cars, but at any given moment all of them seemed to collect here, like bees to a hive. One could watch the whirl of cars and people from an outdoor

If traffic is congested and our roads are blocked, transportation is slowed and the wheels of economic progress are slowed.

Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It'll finish when the oil runs out.

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

Rather than just reacting to events, as transportation planners tend to do with traffic congestion, makers of, say, a patent system can construct one to reward creators or distribute intellectual property in ways that are not simply reacting to market pressures. We don't only have to enlarge what is there. We can light out for new territory, and make new places, and markets.

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

There is a smell that lung sickness gives people. It's the smell of blood and congestion and fever. It's the smell of blood mixed with air that hangs over a bed and fills a sickroom. It's the smell of old blood, and blood that is fresh and already old. It's the smell of a festering wound.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

For some commutes, the time spent stuck in traffic will hit four hours per day.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Say no to parking lots!

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

Leaking tunnels, congested roads, rusting bridges, and aging railways often mean one thing: lost opportunity from delays and cancellations.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The Prius does about 55mpg and it always amuses me. I love it when you pull up at someone's house and all you can hear is the gravel crunching under the tyres. I don't have to pay the central London congestion charge, either.

If I was Mayor of London, I would take the congestion charge off. I'd keep the bike lanes. And buses free on a Thursday.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.