Varun Sharma Quotes

Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

I love this thing about L.A. that we always make fun of but always do, which is talk about traffic and which direction we're going.

I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily.

I understand how it feels to stand in a crowded train, to be stuck in congested traffic.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

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

A million people a day go to work in this city and they drive themselves. I don't see why I'm any different.

Traffic: Sit there. Sit. Occasionally move your foot from the brake and crawl forward, then put it back. That's all you do for hours. It's very calming.

I'm always running back and forth to the district.

Global traffic has become very networked, very connected.

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.