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If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

— Noam Chomsky

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

— Joe Scarborough

The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

— Jon Batiste

I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

— Park Bo-gum

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

— Nina Garcia

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

— Grace Abbott

It is important to give commuters greater, more reliable mass transit options and... great potential to get cars off of I-80 and eliminate other daily traffic jams in northern New Jersey.

— Rodney Frelinghuysen

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

— Siri Hustvedt

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

— Larry King

✗Opposing Perspectives

I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

— Chris Kattan

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

— Enrico Colantoni