Stewart Udall Quotes

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.

We are committed to delivering a safe, equitable, and reliable transportation system.

The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by 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.

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our goal of better, faster transit.

In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

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.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

Bengaluru's traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work.

We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.