Transportation Quotes

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias. - Larry Rice

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are. - Damien Newton

You're providing a service for the community's citizens. If we privatized transportation, there would be no control over who they're hiring. And bus drivers are part of our team. - David Taylor

Your joy-rider will just be for the thrill of stealing a car and driving it. And the one that steals it for your transportation has a purpose in mind. - Michelle Lanham

You win the energy war by addressing transportation. It's the single most important issue facing the world over the next 50 years. - Matt Simmons

You want to begin with a vision of where the community wants to be in terms of its growth, then put a transportation system together. Unfortunately, most places do it the other way around. - Robert Dunphy

You say you were surprised by the fact that so many people didn't make it out. It's no surprise to anyone that you had at least 100,000 people in the city of New Orleans who are dirt poor, who don't have cars, who don't have access to public transportation, who don't have any way to get out of the city simply just because someone says there is a Force 5 hurricane coming, you ought to get out. If you didn't have the buses there to get them out, why should it be a surprise to you that they stayed? - Ted Koppel

You need to be able to buy local stuff, locally generated stuff to get most value for your money and then you need the transportation to get it there. - John Davison

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions. - Tim Kaine

You have a lack of housing in the New Orleans area, utilities out in a good portion of the city, people looking for schools for their children, you don't have day care or transportation. Those are just some of the reasons why people are staying put where they are and not going home. - Ed Pratt