London Breed Quotes

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

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 must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

Our streets are very important for social cohesion, for feelings of safety, and we just surrendered all this to the car. But it doesn't have to be that way.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

We need to be able to live in the city without a car; we need to be able to get around. The transit system has to be strong and work for everyone.

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.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accommodate the cars.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

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

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.

The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that.

I can't support bike lanes.

If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targeting resources, both nationally and locally, to how people are going to get around in the new world.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.