Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I don't like driving much.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

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

In an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.

If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.

Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.

We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.

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

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

North Jersey residents rely on mass transit to get to work and our entire region is interconnected by our transit system.

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

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'