Infrastructure expert Barry LePatner, interviewed extensively for the short documentary, says its message is one America truly needs to heed.

After the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis in 2007, Barry LePatner warned that it would only be a matter of time before another bridge suffered the same fate. In the wake of the May Skagit River Bridge collapse in Washington State, he explains why the nation’s leaders must act now to repair the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.

This feature originally appeared in Informed Infrastructure.