Bruce Seely
hat a shock it has public facilities threaten the continuation been to Americans of basic community services such as fire to discover that protection, public transportation, water steel and concrete supplies, secure prisons, and flood protec- are not forever, that tion." But it took a series of surprises and the proud bridges disasters to drive home the point. In 1984, a built during the New Deal and the inter- bridge collapse on Interstate 95 in Connect- states laid out in the...