Neha Kakkar Quotes

Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

Improving our transportation infrastructure reduces car trips, helps us reach our carbon emission reduction goals, is healthier for our residents, and saves lives. Too often in the past we have been slow to make these common sense improvements to our streets.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

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

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

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.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.