Sherrod Brown Quotes

Please see if it is feasible to create these roads so that they will pay for themselves.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

A broken transportation system hits Michiganders in the pocketbook. Every year, our friends and neighbors spend millions of dollars on car repairs after driving on crumbling streets.

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.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

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

Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.

Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.

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.

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.

We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

We are committed to delivering a safe, equitable, and reliable transportation system.