Transportation Issues Quotes

Hoosiers deserve a straightforward approach about information regarding blocked railroad crossings and I commend the Federal Railroad Administration's willingness to work with all parties involved on this important issue.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

Some cyclists are complete prats, obviously, but so are some drivers.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

… to rely on a train, in [Tony] Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

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.

I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

My main frustration is that NJ Transit continually misleads the residents of South Jersey.

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.