Rail Network Quotes

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

This corridor is important to national security and important to the whole Northeast. So it's not just our own New Jersey transportation needs: it's the whole rail corridor here we're talking about.

Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

… to rely on a train, in [Tony] Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

I think one of the things about railways, if you get on a train you do find - as you come into Paddington, or wherever - you look into people's windows in a way that you just can't do in a car or any other way.

The rail service is important for my district.

Railways are my politics.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.

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.

Our whole future depends on the railways

The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

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.

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.