Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

L.A. is not a place where people walk.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

In an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

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.

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.

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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

In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

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

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.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

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.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

I don't have a car and have decided never to own one.