Richard Nixon Quotes

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

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

I'd like to get rid of those streetcars, maybe phase them out. I'm not sure how we're going to do it but I'd like to slowly but surely get rid of those streetcars and maybe replace them with buses.

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

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

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

In an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

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

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.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

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.

Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

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

Cities are created by and for traffic.

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

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.