What catastrophe do we have to wait for?

It's been written about for years, but our infrastructure still sucks. Have our leaders said anything about that other than proposing a gas tax holiday?

John Gapper in the Financial Times echoes feelings I've had for a while,

"At times I wonder whether the world’s biggest economy has the will to solve its challenges or will end up wandering self-indulgently into the minor economic leagues. I expect it will get serious when the crisis is too blatant to ignore, but it has not done so yet."

"The bigger problem is that, unlike European countries including the UK, the US shows little sign of finding the will or the funding mechanisms to maintain what it has or to build anew."

When will we start attacking our problems instead of other countries?