The St Clair I-20 "Death Valley" fiasco reminds me of an old classic "I Love Lucy" episode wherein Lucy Ricardo is hired to work on an assembly line in a "pie factory" where her job was to take each pie that came to the end of the assembly line on a moving belt and place it in a shipping box. The assembly line speeds up to the point that Lucy can't keep up with the on-coming pies. She uses various tactics to try and keep up. She uses her arm to try and hold up the pies only to have them crash off the side of the assembly line or pile up and fall off the end.

Lucy's tactics remind me of the peripheral measures taken by our state department of transportation and highway safety patrol to solve a problem that they obviously don't fully understand, as they widen the highway, add "fast lanes", construct median barriers, deploy "dummy" patrol cars, erect flashing signs begging drivers to slow down, erect signs that flash a driver's speed with the "wish" that the driver just may be nice enough to obey the law.

Lucy employed all efforts "inanimate" to solve a problem of "human" failure. Human failure to slow the speed of that "out of control" assembly line. Her efforts had no bearing on the problem. And as with poor Lucy, our state department of transportation and highway safety patrol are employing efforts that have no bearing on the real problem; Human failure to slow the speed of "out of control" drivers disobeying existing public safety laws.

In these times of political correctness and touchy-feeliness, God forbid we hold ourselves responsible - for anything.

Until we do, the human carnage by humans will continue on I-20, no matter the amount of money, materials and manpower spent on attacking all but the tragic problem.