Corrine Brown Quotes

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

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

Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.

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

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

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.

We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

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

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.

Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.

The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

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

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

The rail service is important for my district.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

Every person that you can get on a public transportation vehicle is one less person polluting the air or taking up space on our highways.

Nobody, in any part of the world, has figured out a way to make money on passenger railroads. It's a matter of social policy.

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.