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  • Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

    Loss   Our World   Cities  
  • Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

    Obesity   Lanes   Traffic  
  • Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.229, Vintage
  • There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

    Jam   Miles   Traffic  
    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014
  • I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

    Hate   Pay   Facts  
  • We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

    Moving   Citizens   Way  
  • This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

    Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.33, Courier Corporation
  • Raising the congestion charge won't necessarily make a difference. Rather than increasing the amount you pay in congestion charge, we should be thinking about an ultra low emission zone. We should penalise those cars who are the biggest polluters and reward cars that don't, like electric cars.

  • There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.

    People   Want   Facts  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

    Nice   Trying   Crooks  
    "U.S.A. Is No. 1, on London List of Traffic Fees" by Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. May 02, 2006.
  • In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

    Issues   Long   Lists  
    "The plea of car owners ..." by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.
  • I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

    Larry King, Greg King, Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). “Tell It to the King”, Jove
  • If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

  • Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

  • One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.

  • Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.

    Cities   Car   Leaks  
    Source: www.columbusunderground.com
  • In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

    Eye   Space   Generations  
    Lewis Mumford (1964). “The High Way and the City”, New American Library of Canada
  • If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

    Car   Pollution   Made  
    "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.
  • As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

  • It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion

  • Sometimes, you still have days when you don't just feel right, like there is a kind of congestion, and the flow isn't there. You're just not playing clearly.

    Flow   Kind   Sometimes  
  • The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

    "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5, 1944.
  • Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

    Sexy   Issues   Important  
  • Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

    Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.775, Lulu Press, Inc
  • The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are called externalities, effects on others. I sell you a car, if our eyes are open we'll make a good deal for ourselves but we're not asking how it's going to affect her [over there.] It will, there'll be more congestion, gas prices will go up, there will be environmental effects and that multiplies over the whole population. Well, that's very serious.

    Eye   Car   Decision  
    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

    Real   People   Google  
  • Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  • When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

    Risk   Cost   Done  
    "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.
  • I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

    Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books
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