Will Rogers Quotes

I can't support bike lanes.

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.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

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

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

A little gridlock might be pretty good from time to time.

You have to take account of traffic, but you should not pander to traffic.

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

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

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.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?'

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

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

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

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.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

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.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

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.

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

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

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.