Gordon Forgey

An AmTrack train derailed in the east when the rails split. A bridge collapsed across the Skagit River in Washington. A highway overpass in Missouri collapsed when two trains collided beneath it.

All this in a few weeks.

Since then, the word “terrorism” has been displaced by the word “infrastructure.”

“Infrastructure” has been whispered in the past, but now it is getting the attention it deserves.

America’s roads, bridges, rail system and water and sewer lines are getting old. Not to mention aging gas pipelines, such as the one that exploded and destroyed a neighborhood in Oakland.

Since the S...