Denis Napthine 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.

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.

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

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

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

We need a first-class transportation system.

It is important to give commuters greater, more reliable mass transit options and... great potential to get cars off of I-80 and eliminate other daily traffic jams in northern New Jersey.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

I think that Delhi Metro has made things convenient for people, and we must credit the government for that. The Metro network that they have built in the city without disturbing any infrastructure is amazing.

America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

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.

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

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

In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

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

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accommodate the cars.

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.

I am not unaware of the great importance of roads and canals and the improved navigation of water courses, and that a power in the National Legislature to provide them might be exercised with signal advantage to the general prosperity.