Bits Quote by Anthony Foxx

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…

— Bill Lipinski

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the…

— Dennis Hastert

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and…

— Anthony Stafford Beer

As a logistics entrepreneur who has created hundreds of American jobs, I will make sure the National Highway bill improves our infrastructure, while ensuring…

— Mike Braun

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's…

— Anthony Foxx

The United States is a huge market, and once you get rolling, you can replicate that model over and over pretty easily. Your supply…

— Fred DeLuca

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Transportation is about bridges and ports and roads, yes - but it must foundationally be connecting people to jobs and services, across all modalities.

— Jake Auchincloss

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

— Vladimir Putin

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport,…

— Anthony Foxx

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

— John Gates

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

— Corrine Brown