Charles Pelly Quotes

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

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

I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.

A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

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.

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

I'd rather go by bus.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

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

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

I rode it a lot before I was governor. I rode the commuter rail for a lot of years, I rode the T for a lot of years, and I talk to people all the time who ride both.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

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.

I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.

The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.