Anthony Foxx Quotes

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Nobody, in any part of the world, has figured out a way to make money on passenger railroads. It's a matter of social policy.

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

The rail service is important for my district.

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

I'd rather go by bus.

… to rely on a train, in [Tony] Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

I don't know anyone who's ever taken a bus. It's a mysterious form of transportation.

We need a first-class transportation system.

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

What we're trying to accomplish is the cheapest, fastest, cleanest form of major public transportation. There's economic value in being able to move people and things fast - and without any delays, because the hyperloop is impervious to weather.

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.