An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation

A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?'
‘Yes, boss... it’s true. There’s hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic

Столиця — місто елегантних катафалків і клаксонистих трун на колесах.

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

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

If a stupid person takes over the steering wheel all the time, an accident is bound to happen.