Transport Infrastructure Quotes

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

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

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

When we talk about national infrastructure, we often discuss roads and railroads, but as a matter of fact, mobile infrastructure is equally as important.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

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.

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

I think that Delhi Metro has made things convenient for people, and we must credit the government for that. The Metro network that they have built in the city without disturbing any infrastructure is amazing.

Railways, multiplied and spanning the continent, are essential domestic institutions -- more powerful and more permanent than law, or popular consent, or political constitutions... They thoroughly complete the grand system... which fraternizes us into one people.

Like my constituents, I have had to immerse myself in the detail about HS2 precisely because of the massive and permanent impact it would have on the area I represent.

Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.