Congested Districts Board

Congested Districts Board may mean or refer to:

  • the Congested Districts Board for Ireland
  • the Congested Districts Board (Scotland)

Famous quotes containing the words congested, districts and/or board:

    “O can’t you see, brother—
    Death’s a congested road for fighters now,
    and hero a cheap label.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind—no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be—there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
    —Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)

    “Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)