Life in the FAST lane.

The current highway authorization bill and how it affects your community.

The current state of affairs, including a look at the FAST Act, and a preview of how we are encouraged to spend money.

Throughout this series, I’m going to try to make the case for the right kind of spending. Part of the argument needs to be rooted in history and fact because it’s “how we’ve always done things” statements that perpetuate the moral hazard.

I’ll do my best to back up my assertions with data, maps and quotes where appropriate, but the intent isn’t to overwhelm you with numbers to prove common sense, for instance, that $1 trillion is not a realistic target for infrastructure spending. Can you tell if that number is too big or too small?

Why do people keep calling for a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending?

The current executive administration keeps calling for many trillions of dollars to fix america’s surface transportation. The president as head of this administration has had some vague idea of what this means since he was a candidate. But as as the Times article po…