(34 quotes found)
“After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.”
Charles Krauthammer
“It has been a long wait and at last we seemed to have an outcome for the commuters on this line. What we needed was a clear way forward; this is very unsatisfactory.”
Anthony Smith
“In areas where commuting is an issue, housing located in the inner areas will appreciate at a higher rate.”
Walter Carpenter
“The conditions for this kind of commuting are really quite ideal in Ottawa.”
Ata Khan
“As long as such suburbs do not end up as commuter dormitories or nothing more than commuter suburbs. The next stage is to produce a richer range of activities and employment opportunities so they can be more self-contained. I think Springfield is a first step, but only a first step and the next phase is going to be critical and that is achieving higher level of self-containment.”
Brendan Gleeson
“We asked commuters on trains that got to Grand Central before 7 a.m. if they had a choice, would they take an even earlier train, and we got a very positive response.”
Dan Brucker
“We're spending a lot more time in our cars commuting, and we're doing a lot more in cars, especially with new technologies. We do a lot of things and we don't get caught. But in fact we're just lucky and we get complacent.”
Charlie Klauer
“[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter [hovered over] the assembled group.] I thought, 'How did we come to this?' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.”
Christopher Andersen
“It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their own town. The people who live in town are having trouble getting across the streets.”
Chris McGovern
“My three boys are commuting to school from our hotel. Although my son Michael thought it was strange to start first grade twice, I think it's great my [boys] are in school.”
Colleen Moore
