The Congressional Budget office recently issued a new 10-year estimate of Highway Trust Fund spending and revenue. (Stay with us. It’s only boring if you don’t stick around for the upcoming forehead slapping.)   If you were perusing the back pages of the internet in December you heard that a transportation bill passed, providing funding for the Highway...

It always comes down to that, doesn't it? How will we pay for a modern system of roads that can support the millions of cars and trucks currently overwhelming our highways? Repair, upgrade, maintain, repeat. Year after year. This isn't a one-time deal that we can check off our list and move on. And we can't pass it...

On December 4th we wrapped principal photography for Be Prepared to Stop. Which is just a fancy way of we are done shooting and are now up to our eyeballs in transcripts and outlines and great, great footage of wonderful interviews. So, to Steve Williams who was first in the hot seat, Earl Swift who brought the history...

Holy hopper bottom, there’s new hope on the horizon! Last week the US House of Representatives passed a six-year $325 billion transportation bill ($261 billion for highways and $55 billion for transit). However – you knew there would be a “however” – although it approves six years of badly-needed projects, it only funds the bill for three years....

As we face our final few bittersweet days of watching Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, we thought we’d post a video clip from last summer that pretty much covers the ongoing struggle to get a Highway Trust Fund bill passed and funded.   The Daily Show "First of all, I can't believe our Federal Highways have a...

A lot can happen in a week.   The Be Prepared to Stop crew met in Washington, DC to do some filming and found ourselves caught up in everything from a torrential downpour to assorted confusing traffic circles to landmark Supreme Court decisions – all of which made us a little dizzy.   Interviews with folks like economist...

After months of preparation and research, Delaware Park Productions will begin production next week on Be Prepared to Stop, a documentary about the breaking down of the delivery system that brings us most of what we need every day. These days the phrase “crumbling infrastructure” is heard on news reports almost as often as the word “pothole”. We...

Once again rather than passing a long-term plan to finance the Highway Trust Fund, the U.S. Congress has extended federal funds for just a couple of months, leaving existing highway and mass transit projects and any chance of future planning in a ditch.   It’s all about who pays for it and how. Gas tax, barrel tax, repatriation,...