Delia Smith Quotes

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

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.

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

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

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

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 understand how it feels to stand in a crowded train, to be stuck in congested traffic.

I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

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

Being mayor of San Francisco is dealing with pot holes and dog doo.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

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.

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.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

I can't support bike lanes.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

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

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.