Jim Wunderman Quotations
Jim Wunderman Quotes about:
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Attract Quotes
The Bay Area's educational performance is showing improvement, but that's not sufficient. We've been handling, to some degree, the growth of the economy through improvements in efficiency, but that may be a slippery slope. There's clearly a need to create a housing economy that can attract more people to the region to satisfy the demands of economic growth.
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Act Quotes
The Bay Area is not prepared for its next major disaster. The painful lessons that emerged from recent disasters in the United States drive our passion to protect the Bay Area. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina revealed the unthinkable cost in terms of lives and money of haphazard planning and irresolute leadership. Not putting ferries on the Bay for disaster recovery is like New Orleans not strengthening its levees, knowing a hurricane was coming. The threats to the Bay Area are well known and we must act urgently to avoid repeating this tragedy.
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Address Quotes
This is a continued cry for help from the people stuck in traffic each day whose only option is to grip the steering wheel tighter. This is both a state and a regional failure to address the problem. We've really shortchanged infrastructure in the state and in the region over the past decade, and it's taken its toll.