Steven Crowder Quotes

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

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.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.

The more cars, the better show.

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 run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

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.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

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

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!

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.

In Chicago, we have a century-old transit system that desperately needs updates to keep up with increased capacity.

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

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.

I understand how it feels to stand in a crowded train, to be stuck in congested traffic.

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 haven't got a Cadillac. I've got a subway token.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

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.