Dan Lipinski Quotes

Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

My vision for the future of social transportation is one that places more value on information and community over a physical product. Move over, multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail infrastructure and welcome, social information-based solutions.

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

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

I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!

There will be new businesses that will digitally enable the planning and consumption of passenger and goods movement to be more efficient, enjoyable, productive, safer, cleaner, and cheaper. That could mean everything from maintaining vehicle fleets to remote monitoring.

The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs?

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

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.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

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

I think Uber is a good car service, but Lyft is going after a much bigger problem in trying to make life without a car possible and reinvent the way people get around cities.

The solution to transportation inefficiencies lies at the intersection of collaborative consumption and the social graph: Shifting transportation from ownership to access.

With a strong focus on driver-partners and the community at large, we aim to create a high-quality and affordable travel experience for citizens and look forward to contributing to a healthy mobility ecosystem in Australia.

We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

I'd be quite happy if cars were banned from central London. Why are we not using little tuk-tuks rather than big black cabs?

In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

We need to be able to live in the city without a car; we need to be able to get around. The transit system has to be strong and work for everyone.

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.

We created Lyft because we want to establish a radically different concept of personal transportation. We want people to think of transportation as a service enabled by technology instead of as an expensive and large piece of hardware to own.

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.