Clay Shirky Quotes

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

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

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.

I'd like to get rid of those streetcars, maybe phase them out. I'm not sure how we're going to do it but I'd like to slowly but surely get rid of those streetcars and maybe replace them with buses.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

I'd rather go by bus.

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Every person that you can get on a public transportation vehicle is one less person polluting the air or taking up space on our highways.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

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

I don't have a car and have decided never to own one.

When you go to pick your kids up from school, cars are lined up idling for anywhere from five to 20 minutes. Starting a 'no idling' rule in your school carpool lane could have a huge impact.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

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

People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.