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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. -- John Pomfret
Sometimes the best mode of transportation is a leap of faith. -- M. Elaine Moore
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. -- Jerry Costello
With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer. -- Johann Lamont
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. -- Iris Murdoch
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. -- Margaret Thatcher
Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor. -- Ted Conover
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems. -- Bill Lipinski
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. -- Erol Ozan
Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us. -- Jeff Speck
Build Pathways and Roads Building pathways or roads can help you travel between your base and other places in your world. -- Legendary Apps
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. -- Henry Morton Stanley
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen. -- Freya Stark
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common. -- Juliette Gordon Low
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. -- Emily Greene Balch
Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open. -- Patti Smith
Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. -- John Ruskin
Transportation spending is a win-win proposition. -- Tim Bishop
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. -- Jan Morris
travel is compost for the mind -- Martha Gellhorn
There are roads where people go, and where they should arrive is their mission. -- Eraldo Banovac
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I try to use public transport, always. -- Theo James
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain. -- John Murphy
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds. -- W. Daniel Hillis
I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. -- Travis Barker
way onto the train. -- Kristin Hannah
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. -- Robert Hughes
When the automobile was made affordable to the masses, people moved further away from work and further away from stores. While transportation speed increased, transportation distance increased proportionally, keeping transportation time constant. -- Jacob Lund Fisker
Propulsion, spewing out smoke, and three-wheeler taxis, -- Edmund De Waal
locomotive, Special trucks -- David Mccullough
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. -- Jean Chretien
Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around. -- Simi Linton
Baggage is how you carry the good stuff. -- Marsha Moyer
Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential. -- Michael Burgess
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism. -- Upton Sinclair
Journey Before Destination. -- Brandon Sanderson
For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation. -- Dan Webster
Roads were made for journeys not destinations -- Confucius
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. -- Cynthia Ozick
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. -- Brock Yates
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. -- Winston Churchill
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away. -- Winston Churchill
We have affairs in different places; and hence railways were invented. Railways separated us infallibly from our friends; and so telegraphs were made that we might communicate speedier at great distances. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing. -- Logan Green
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars. -- Dan Hill
Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane. -- Dennis Miller
Trains are wonderful ... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life. -- Agatha Christie
Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress ... -- Lorraine Hansberry
Is the journey the destination? Please, no. Let me out of your Volkswagen bus at the next corner. -- N.d. Wilson
live in New York and you got used to public transport. -- Adrian Magson
Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From -- Umberto Eco
A train journey is travel; everything else - planes especially - is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands. - GRB -- Paul Theroux
The history of the development of any urban center will be incomplete without a mention of the role of mass transit in the whole process. In deed the role of mass transit as a catalyst of industrial revolution and urbanization cannot be over emphasized. In the case of the New -- Clifford N. Opurum
The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls. -- Joanna Walsh
For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places. -- Elaine Dundy
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. -- Vita Sackville-West
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. -- Theresa May
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object. -- Jonathan Raban
ship. The courier just arrived from Paidara. -- Michael Gruber
Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it. -- Donna Edwards
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. -- Friedrich List
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels? -- William Golding
You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that. -- J. Cornell Michel
A bike is the world's most used form of transportation -- David Byrne
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. -- Edward Blake
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children. -- Iris Murdoch
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. -- Dave Allen
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. -- Jose Rizal
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. -- Carl Honore
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. -- A. B. Yehoshua
Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings -- Anna Funder
We all know that a vast proportion of travel is accumulated nuisance; but if boredom or awfulness is handled with skill and concrete detail, it is funnier and truer than the sunniest prose. -- Paul Theroux
We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better. -- Chris Harrison
What does Austin need to move that large car? Powers! -- Steve Jolly
Life is a journey and it's quicker by car. -- Chloe Thurlow
electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans. -- Matthew Crabbe
Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 million tons. -- Barbara Kingsolver
A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car -- Enrique Penalosa
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. -- Mo Ibrahim
Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy. -- Marc Levinson
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road. -- Paul Theroux
Pedestrian accessibility is the key. -- Kim Delaney
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. -- Logan Green
I like the gizmos that transport people. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight
complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;
I am going to push it across three dark highways
or coast along under 600,000 faint stars. -- Gerald Stern
A journey should never be judged by the destination or mode of transportation. It should be judged by the friends who accompany us on the trip. -- Jim Stovall
The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis. -- Al Dubin
We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire. -- Sherrod Brown
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead. -- Henry David Thoreau
Journey IS the destination. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Rather than allowing subway and bus fares to rise while service erodes, we need to be lowering prices and expanding services - regardless of the costs. Public -- Naomi Klein
Liberty trains for liberty. -- W.e.b. Du Bois
Money expedited delivery. -- Kresley Cole
The world admires wealth and velocity - these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
