Where do people come up with these silly ideas?

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Quick personal note: I am traveling this week and may be slow in approving comments, which are currently under manual moderation.

Some of you may remember the the death of 66 year old Margaret Bengs on November 2, 2015 in Sacramento, CA. Bengs attempted to cross Fair Oaks Boulevard at Kenneth Avenue on her bicycle when Sacramento Superior Court Judge Matthew Gary slammed his pickup truck into Bengs. Family members of the victim allege the California Highway Patrol’s rushed investigation failed to properly establish fault. An investigative report published last weekend in the Sacramento Bee concurs that in spite of CHP statements firmly placing blame on the cyclist, not enough evidence was collected to determine fault either way.

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The United States Congress forwarded the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or the FAST Act, to the White House last night, with President Obama expected to sign the bill into law just as the current highway authorization bill expires today. The FAST Act authorizes five years of funding for American highway and other transportation projects and is America’s first long term transportation funding law since SAFETEA-LU was signed into law by President George W Bush in 2005. Federal transportation policy since then has limped along with a series of continuing resolutions and the short term MAP-21 legislation, hindering long term planning.

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