Garrett Hedlund Quotes

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.

Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.

I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

Traffic terrifies me.

I don't do freeways.

I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily.

The biggest downside of L.A. is the traffic and parking tickets. They turn me into Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down.'

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.

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

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

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

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.

I love this thing about L.A. that we always make fun of but always do, which is talk about traffic and which direction we're going.

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.

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

While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.

Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.

Why is everything so far apart in Los Angeles?

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.