Logan Green Quotes

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

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.

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

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

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.

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.

Every person that you can get on a public transportation vehicle is one less person polluting the air or taking up space on our highways.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

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.

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.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.

Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

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.

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.