Mass Transit Quotes

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

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.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

When we look at transportation in America, there's going to be companies like Magic Bus, where you have these private bus fleets. You're going to have carpooling; you're going to have these different types of transportation. It's going to be a full ecosystem, but it's not going to be a winner-takes-all.

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

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

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

Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

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

I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

I don't drive. I live in L.A., but I take the bus. I know, I'm weird!

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.