As Baltimore bridge collapse shows, infrastructure is important. So why do we never spend on it?

When I was covering the Donald Trump administration in the U.S. for the Star, there was a running joke among the Washington press gallery that next week was always going to be “Infrastructure Week” in the White House.

See, Trump had once promised it was coming up, because infrastructure is the kind of thing everyone agrees is important. But then it never arrived, because infrastructure is the kind of thing that never seems interesting enough to carry a news cycle, which was a prime Trump priority-setting criteria.