Transport Comparison Quotes

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

It would almost seem that - dare I say this - private transportation is more efficient than mass public-transit!

Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.