Paul Johnson Quotes

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.

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.

I'd like to get rid of those streetcars, maybe phase them out. I'm not sure how we're going to do it but I'd like to slowly but surely get rid of those streetcars and maybe replace them with buses.

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

L.A. is not a place where people walk.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

I like taking the subway to work.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

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

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

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.

I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.

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.

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

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

An injunction can't run a subway.

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

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.

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

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.