Dave Barry Quotes

I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.

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

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

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

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

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

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

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

The public bus is how I got to school every day.

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

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.