#transport

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#civilians #distinct #economic #entertainment #importance

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#behind #down #electrical #fear #instance

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#education #health #health care #i #out

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

#bring #close #common #communications #fact

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all. ↗

— John Mica

#agency #any #bureaucracy #cannot #conversion

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

#develop #did #exits #fullest #i

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#case #cheaper #cleaner #domestic #fuel

[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be accessible. Technology is inherently democratic, because it promises the same services to all; but it works only if the rich are alone using it. When the poor also adopt technology, it stops working. A train used to take two hours to go from A to B; then the motor car arrived, which could cover the same distance in one hour. For this reason cars were very expensive. But as soon as the masses could afford to buy them, the roads became jammed, and the trains started to move faster. Consider how absurd it is for the authorities constantly to urge people to use public transport, in the age of the automobile; but with public transport, by consenting not to belong to the elite, you get where you're going before members of the elite do. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#inventions #technology #transport #age

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#anything #believe #haven #i #know