Corrine Brown Quotes

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

The rail service is important for my district.

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

People don't want to cut back on the railroads, and they haven't ridden the damn things in years.

Aid in perfecting the processes of economical mining and indefinitely increase the production of the precious metals and coin, the liberal assistance of the Government and of Science ought to be involved and it will be given.

Nobody, in any part of the world, has figured out a way to make money on passenger railroads. It's a matter of social policy.

Frank O’Conner is from New York City Frank O’Conner says the Subways should be free Guess who he wants to pay for them.

We must invest in our nation's transportation infrastructure.

With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.