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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.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.