Road Maintenance Quotes

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

In my campaign I hardly ever talked about what's happening in Washington D.C. I talked about how we're going to fix the damn roads, how we clean up drinking water, and ensure people get access to the skills they need to get good paying jobs.

When I became chief minister of Punjab in 1985, I got Murree Road carpeted for the first time.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.

Coming from Mumbai, the one thing that always amazes me about Noida is the roads here. Such wide roads are something you don't get to see in Mumbai. Driving around here is surely a pleasure.

Scott Walker has repeatedly failed to address our crumbling bridges and highways, which rank as some of the worst in the country, forcing communities to tax themselves even more to pay for basic road maintenance.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

The road is not a problem.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

Just because there's glass on the road don't mean there's been an accident.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.