But it's clear that urban mobility badly needs to be rethought for an age of commuters every bit as networked as the vehicles and infrastructures on which they rely, but who retain expectations of personal mobility entrained by a century of private car ownership.
But the hard truth is that we in the Labour party lost the election and now every part of our programme needs to be rethought.
So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rethought and rebuilt?
Money went in for a few years, but was soon drawn down again; the FEM has been dormant since 2003 (its website is a poignant reminder of what might have been).What would have happened if Chávez had rethought, and started squirrelling money away again?
Expensive health-care and pension systems are being rethought, if not yet sufficiently overhauled.
It is not just investment bankers and top executives whose pay structures need to be rethought.
ReprintsHowever, scenting the chance for an even huger handout from Tokyo, Yoshikazu Shimabukuro, the newly elected mayor of the nearby city of Nago, demanded that the plan be rethought from scratch.
More generally, however, the fund needs to be flexible and it has indeed rethought its approach in recent years.
They have rethought the logic of insecticides, putting evolutionary theory at the centre, instead of a simple desire to destroy the enemy.
And non-Western companies are becoming powerhouses of innovation in everything from telecoms to computers.Rethinking innovationThe very nature of innovation is having to be rethought.
If the share of digital sales goes much above 10%, investment in stores "will be rethought", she says.Goodbye to Bond Street?The future is "direct to the consumer through the internet", says Nathan Morse, who runs the business side of Hannah Martin, a London jeweller.
