Mike Quigley Quotes

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

Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

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

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

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

You have to take account of traffic, but you should not pander to traffic.

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

We are building a truly integrated, efficient, and modern transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Commuters deserve nothing less than the full support of our next federal government.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air.

This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.