John Lasseter Quotes

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.

No one ever built an interstate highway system before

The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a driving generation with leisure time on their hands, but expanded the federal government's purview.

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

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

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

If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.

These landscapes aren't breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposeful landscapes, whether to extend our cities or build a mine or put a road in or clear a forest. I've been photographing that which has been intended by us; it's not an accident.

We must invest in our nation's transportation infrastructure.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

After World War II the federal government figured out that Detroit could make 6 million cars a year and there were not enough roads to put them on.

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.

The suburbs of yesterday do not look at all like the suburbs of today.

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.

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.

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.