Ray LaHood Quotes

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

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.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

You can go anywhere in New York. There's always something to do in New York. There's always a place to eat no matter what time it is. There's always a place to work, a place to drink. It's conducive to my lifestyle. I don't know how to drive a car, so I like to be able to walk places.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

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

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