30 Issues in 30 Days is our election year series on the important issues facing the country this election year. Today: The necessity of borrowing to initiate and maintain essential infrastructure projects. Visit the 30 Issue home page for all the conversations.

Melissa Lafsky, editor-in-chief of The Infrastructurist, and Steve Anderson of Infrastructure USA, discuss recent train woes on the LIRR and New Jersey Transit lines.

Steven C.F. Anderson, founder and managing director of InfrastructureUSA , a website seeking to start a national online dialog about America's civil infrastructure, and Edward G. Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania (D) and co-founder of the infrastructure coalition Building America’s Future, talk about the need for upgrading U.S. civil ...