Urban Commuting Quotes

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

In Mumbai, even Bollywood stars use autos when they are in a hurry.

I am not a BART regular but have taken it probably five times to and from the city with some of my teammates. Nice to just hop on the train and enjoy some of the views of the Bay Area while I'm out.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

A million people a day go to work in this city and they drive themselves. I don't see why I'm any different.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.

On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

I have always loved travelling in autorickshaws.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.

From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.