Famous Quotes & Sayings

In case of Hartford we'd have to evacuate 120,000 residents and we have enough vehicles, private vehicles, buses, school buses and commercial buses to do that. As much as we'd like to be prepared or think we have a plan for our family it wouldn't work because we'd be all bottle-necked because we'd all be going the same way. There's not enough roads out of the city.

The first priority is to run the yellow buses and then it depends on what happens with the fuel supply,

Deborah Moggach

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

We served a lot of people. Nearly 50 buses a day went out of here.

It's getting everybody there. You know? We had to work on flights, and all the buses and everything else. But I think we got it worked out, and now it's just a case where you can focus on what's really important -- winning hockey games.

At first, our evacuation orders were just for the low-lying areas, but now it's the entire Calcasieu Parish. We've got buses running continuously to get residents out. We're trying to learn from other areas, not to repeat their mistakes.

They've been teasing us with buses for four days.

Kathleen Blanco

They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:

This is winter and we live in Minnesota, but even if we have good snow plowing here that they don't have in Missouri or some other state, there's still an issue of getting roads clean so that buses and other people who are out taking their kids to school can be safe.

Bill Cartwright

We've already tested the fuel in one of our transit buses and the performance was excellent,

(The RTA) is going for a referendum, and until then, we've got to show people every penny is being spent wisely, ... We've got to concentrate on the buses which get people to work and to the doctor before the trolleys.

These are some of the things people don't realize about a school district - that we serve 3,929,185 meals a year and our buses travel 2,375,000 miles a year.

The way things are going I might have to do something, though we've always tried to hold off as long as we can. Our buses get about six to seven miles per gallon. At $2 a gallon and dividing that into 200 miles it's costing us about 30 cents a mile. At $2.80 a gallon it costs us 40 cents a mile. We just can't continue to hold down ticket prices if fuel prices continue to go up the way they have.

We want students to think about how they schedule their classes on the campus where they live and park. We're hoping to get people on buses instead of driving, especially during peak times.

And they were never used to evacuate people out of hospitals or schools or nursing homes or the like. Where were the drivers of those buses if you know.

During his tenure, Richard has kept the buses running for 15 million miles, and 7 million people rode the buses during that time.

Transit buses are an excellent application for hybrid propulsion systems, because buses consume significantly more fuel than cars or light trucks and they are often utilized in stop-and-go city traffic.

Sam Houston

We have employees who come in at 6:15 to get our buses rolling at 7, ... We don't want them out in what could be a potentially dangerous situation.

We had to dispatch buses to the area, but everything is fine now.

We had the buses take them home if there would be someone there. If not, they were taken to the rooms we have at Harrison Elementary School.

No buses showed up, and no buses were turned away, ... I have been in contact with ADEM twice today (Tuesday), and there are no such buses en route. And if they should show up, and we were not notified, we would deal with it. We have lots of people ready to step up and help. The citizens of the county will step up and help them.

Now that the highway has been opened up to four lanes, delays haven't been a problem. As a result, PART buses are stopping in Kernersville on every trip going and coming from Winston-Salem to the PART hub near the Greensboro airport.

If anything, this proves that our buses are doing pretty good compared to the hybrid system,

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

He would do things like travel on the buses around Ithaca and record phrases, in a little notebook, from young girls that he heard coming back from school.

Bill Clinton

If we really wanted to do it right, we would have had lots of buses lined up to take them out,

If the rock-throwing keeps up, we can't keep sending buses through there. The risk is just too much.

Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?

Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.

One person comes in the morning and starts all the buses in a lot, and they idle until the drivers arrive. That can take an hour. These depots should never be in residential areas.

Mitch Leigh

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.

Steve Erickson

I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

People needed to evacuate the city. That was the message the mayor was sending, ... Our people could have hampered the rescue effort. We were meeting buses of evacuees when they would come to different areas. What the Red Cross does during a national response is feeding and sheltering, and we were positioned well for that.