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Editor’s letter There’s a specific feeling I get whenever I fly into New York’s JFK airport and start to make the drive home. It feels exactly like turbulence. The roads around the nation’s busiest international air hub are littered with moon crater–size potholes, which make for a juddering and profanity-filled (“Oh, my poor bleeping suspension”) experience. This isn’t a uniquely New York problem: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 43 percent of roads across the U.S. are in poor or mediocre condition. And the decay goes beyond holes in the blacktop. More than 40 percent of the country’s bridges are at least 50 years old, and about 46,150 have been given the worrying designation “structurally deficient.” Some 178 million trips are made across these decrepit bridges every day. At the current rate of investment, it will take until 2071 to make all the repairs currently needed to those spans—but by the

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