Cities are created by and for traffic.
Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.
We want transportation as reliable as running water.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
The roads for connectivity are vital. We have partners and we have revenue that we will make sure will come in to build our roads.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
No one ever built an interstate highway system before
it was done in the Eisenhower administration
With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.
Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.
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.
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.
Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.
The back roads of America are so important.
These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.
If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.
There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.
