Patrick Pichette Quotes

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

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.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

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.

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

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

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

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.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.

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.

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

If I drive my SUV I'm supporting terrorism. Okay, I'll take a taxi, Is that better?

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

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 have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

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

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

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

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'

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.

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

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.