The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) conference in Mexico City, July 19-21, 2004, was the host of a very fruitful workshop on world-wide Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) experiences organized by EMBARQ and the Centro de Transporte Sustenable (CTS ).

I've been thinking about an observation by the American writer E.B. White, who wrote … “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world … This makes it hard to plan the day.”