Will Rogers Quotes

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

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.

I can't support bike lanes.

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

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.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.

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.

In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

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.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

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.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

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