Dan Lipinski Quotes

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

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.

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

Our ambition is to build a globally competitive and futuristic transportation system in India that will support and accelerate a nation on the move.

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.

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.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

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.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

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

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.

I'd like to get rid of those streetcars, maybe phase them out. I'm not sure how we're going to do it but I'd like to slowly but surely get rid of those streetcars and maybe replace them with buses.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.