We are living with an infrastructure built by men of vision and maintained (for a time) by men who understood how it worked and how to maintain it.
We now have an infrastructure that is wearing out, no vision of any sort to replace it, which is maintained by men and women who know little about it other than how to apply band-aids.
This is a much bigger problem than what happens to SF (and, even more so to LA) when the water transport systems fail.
Same here in MN.
Gubmint priorities are bike paths and parks and rec funding.