Sandy Hornick Quotes

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

L.A. is not a place where people walk.

In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

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.

The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.