Anthony Foxx Quotes

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

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

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.

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

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 bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

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

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

I don't like driving much.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.

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

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.