Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

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

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

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.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

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.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

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.

For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

The driver of a carriage or the rider of a bicycle along the streets of a city is bound to anticipate that passengers on foot may be at the crossings and to take reasonable care not to injure them. If he fails to look out for them, or when he sees, does not, so far as is in his power, avoid them, he is chargeable with negligence

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.

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