Andrew Cuomo Quotes

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

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

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

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

We need a first-class transportation system.

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.

I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.

Coming from Mumbai, the one thing that always amazes me about Noida is the roads here. Such wide roads are something you don't get to see in Mumbai. Driving around here is surely a pleasure.

We are building a truly integrated, efficient, and modern transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Commuters deserve nothing less than the full support of our next federal government.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.