Kevin Kwan Quotes

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

There are three things not worth running for—a bus, a woman, or a new economic panacea; if you wait a bit, another one will come along.

Republicans do not have good ideas. Borrowing two trillion dollars from your grandchildren to finance a Social Security scheme that looks like Enron is not a good idea.

Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

For a long time, we fought in principle against casinos. Finally, we were persuaded it’s big business and if we were not in it, someone else would be. It was becoming increasingly more difficult to shield our people from gambling. We can’t be the nanny.

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

Frank O’Conner is from New York City Frank O’Conner says the Subways should be free Guess who he wants to pay for them.

Millennials aren't buying cars anymore. They don't want to drive. They don't want to own these cars. They don't want that inconvenience.

New York is a good city for not having to get fat.

If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

In the car business, sometimes you crash.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

I have been a transportation leader and advocate my entire public career.

In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely, but it's not the same deference shown to pedestrians.

In L.A., I see people who are always in their cars, always driving. I encourage them to walk more - walk to the post office, walk to lunch. Even if it is a 10-minute walk, it's so good for you.

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

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 like Singapore; it is very clean. People speak English and are warm.

I'd be quite happy if cars were banned from central London. Why are we not using little tuk-tuks rather than big black cabs?

The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.

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.