Indeed, reducing speeds should be at the forefront of any safety strategy. All you have to do is look at the equation for kinetic energy to see that speed is exponential component of energy. Therefore, speed reduction significantly reduces that energy, which increases survivability in a crash.

We glorify speed starting at a young age, do nothing for intervention until the teenage years, when years of watching speeding with little consequence have been already been ingrained. By then it's too late. Our road user education system must have a complete transformation.

Gri6anz

GRod was never going to stay healthy as a starter because of poor mechanics, but he possibly could have been a shutdown reliever. Think Hunter Harvey for a future career trajectory.

While road user education isn't the complete solution, providing basic safety knowledge to everyone starting at a young age will save lives. Dismissing education as a partial solution completely will not. The key, though, is it has to start early. PSAs to adults have little impact.

While the Highway Trust Fund has been bailed out, there's still a possibility to implement mileage-based user fees to eventually replace gas tax revenues. Or the bailouts can continue. But ending or scaling surface transportation programs down and spending less is simply not an acceptable option.

I'm ready to see Buck Britton. He's developed these guys in Bowie and Norfolk. If anybody can figure out how to get Adley, Gunnar and others from being untracked - it's him.