Essays illuminating some of the major issues facing U.S. infrastructure.

Breached levees, fallen bridges : is American infrastructure in crisis?.The real infrastructure crisis / Burt Solomon -- Reverse gears : a new reality for public works? / John McCarron -- Look out below! America's infrastructure is crumbling / Eric Kelderman -- American collapse / Sarah Williams Goldhagen -- Infrastructure investment and U.S. competitiveness / Jonathan Masters -- Rebuilding America special report : how to fix American infrastructure / Erik Sofge -- A new bank to save our infrastructure / Felix G. Rohatyn, Everett Ehrlich -- Highways, byways, and railways : transportation infrastructure. Transportation infrastructure: excerpted from America on the move -- Transportation infrastructure : moving America / Robert McMahon -- Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds / Ashley Halsey III -- Cars, highways, and the poor / Yonah Freemark -- The U.S. must invest in infrastructure / Mark Laluan -- Clogged arteries / Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes -- King of the road / Alex Marshall -- Shifting gears : breaking our addiction to cars / David Carroll Cochran. The train debate : can rail revolutionize American transport?. Bullet trains for America? / Mark Reutter -- All aboard? Bullet trains may be sidetracked, bu not commuter rail / Peter A. Harkness -- Leaping into light rail : cities in the south and west are writing a new chapter in the history of transit / Zach Patton -- Accelerating Amtrak : will superfast train service in the northeast ever happen? / Alex Marshall -- Money train / Philip Klein -- The grid : power and communications networks. The 21st century grid : we fix the infrastructure that powers our lives? Joel Achenbach -- Problems facing our energy infrastructure / Ben Prawdzik -- Are you afraid of the dark? / Jared Wade -- Electric intelligence : establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies / Lynne Kiesling -- Wiring the revolution / Thomas K. Grose -- From taps to toilets : waterworks. At the breaking point / Robert Barkin -- Blue technology can quench America's thirst / Laura Shenkar -- Not just a 'water problem' / Jeff Gunderson -- Water at the crossroads / Jennifer Grzeskowiak -- Add water systems to U.S. infrastructure challenges, says Infrastructure 2010 : an investment imperative / Urban Land Institute (ULI).