A new Mexico is rising alongside the old

“A grainy 1957 photograph shows men in typical peasants’ hats running to catch a dilapidated bus near the intersection of Insurgentes Avenue and Paseo de la Reforma in central Mexico City.

Today, that intersection is filled with young men and women who chat and send text messages on cell phones as they wait at subway-style stations for gleaming new buses that cruise past congested traffic in bus-only express lanes.”

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