Alex Steffen Quotes

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

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

We need to be able to live in the city without a car; we need to be able to get around. The transit system has to be strong and work for everyone.

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

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

In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

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

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

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.

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.

Some consider bicycling an 'alternative' mode of transportation, but it should not be considered alternative. It should be an easy choice for getting around in our City, and we need to do more to make that a reality.

In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our goal of better, faster transit.

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.

Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically shambolic system.

In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

North Jersey residents rely on mass transit to get to work and our entire region is interconnected by our transit system.

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.