Quotes about transit, page 2
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
quote by Bill Lipinski
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With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.
quote by Tom Barrett
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In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
quote by Simon Newcomb
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Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.
quote by Judy Biggert
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It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
quote by William Lamb Melbourne
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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.
quote by Henry Morton Stanley
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The Yellow Thing
The yellow thing,
You cam eand took me away like a thief caught in a cage! !
But this transit period became like my hard lessons in life,
And the home of the forest was my only hope at last.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Key Illegal Ivory Transit Point
Hong Kong island of shame key transit point
for all illegal Chinese Ivory Trade to mainland
Jackie Chan lightening fast martial arts man
speak out for elephant rights to species survival
poem by Terence George Craddock
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
quote by Lakhdar Brahimi
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The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
quote by Ajay Naidu
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