A proposal involving Route 60 required consultation, licensed engineering, public-authority approval, and later implementation under the applicable rules.

We could fund and support a project.

We could not arrive with a contractor and place barriers on a state road because the foundation’s purpose was good.

There were meetings, revisions, and questions about where a contribution would be most effective.

I asked the specialists what prevented collisions like the one that killed my family.

Sometimes the answer was visible equipment.

Sometimes it was maintenance, training, compliance, or a better way of noticing risk before it became a crash.