Transportation Alternatives 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.

Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

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

As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accommodate the cars.

We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.

I understand that some people are angry about taxi services. A taxi fare hike should be accompanied by better customer service.

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

There's a massive opportunity as more and more millennials and others in cities switch over from car ownership to transportation as a service. They are picking Lyft, and we want to stay focused on that big opportunity.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

On-demand ridesharing can make cities less congested and polluted and free up resources. Shared rides can become so affordable that they cost the same as a bus ride today.

In Delhi, I have never taken an auto, while in Mumbai, if there is an auto strike, my life will come to a full stop.

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.

It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?

New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

People don't buy horses to ride around any more for transportation. I just think the world changes. As a business, we have to make the proper adjustments.