Hello, People-Who-Keep-Coming-Back-for-More here at Be Prepared to Stop. How are you? We hope you’re doing well because we’re having a particularly good week and want everyone to be as happy as we are.   It’s finished. That’s right, the film you’ve been hearing about and asking about and reading about for a year is in the can, as...

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...

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....