I found last spring's ECMT Conference in Prague particularly useful. The day when transportation decisions could be made behind closed doors is over. Transportation is the tie that binds communities as well as nations, linking us to home, daycare, school, the workplace, medical care, retail stores and entertainment. As we look to the future, I am confident that we truly are in on the ground floor of a new age of prosperity for everyone. And the role of transportation in this new age is to create the links that make it happen.
Transportation is the tie that binds.
We do so, despite the difficulties and the tensions that confront us, because there is in all of us the capacity to touch one another's hearts across oceans and continents.