Kathleen Wynne Quotes

We must invest in our nation's transportation infrastructure.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

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

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

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.

We need a first-class transportation system.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

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.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

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.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

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.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

An injunction can't run a subway.

As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accommodate the cars.

If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.

No one ever built an interstate highway system before

Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.

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.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

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

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

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.

It is important to give commuters greater, more reliable mass transit options and... great potential to get cars off of I-80 and eliminate other daily traffic jams in northern New Jersey.

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.