I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.
L.A. is not a place where people walk.
I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.
Mobility in India is going to be different from the West. In America, people would look at an autorickshaw and say, 'This is a passing thing.' But in India, you know it will stay because it is fast and convenient.
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.
In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.
Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.
We need a first-class transportation system.
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
I'd rather go by bus.
Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.
I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
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.
I hate cars and wish they had never been invented. I try to use them only when I absolutely have to.
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.
Urban and suburban sprawl is somewhat like pornography. Most people have great difficulty defining it, but they think they know it when they see it. Sprawl has been with us since the dawn of history.
The biggest downside of L.A. is the traffic and parking tickets. They turn me into Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down.'
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.
L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.
Why is everything so far apart in Los Angeles?
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.
