Urban Travel Quotes

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

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

When I was in my college, I remember travelling by buses to tutions, and I have travelled by local trains as well.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.

I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.

A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.'

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.