  In the slow bond problem the rate of a single edge in the Totally Asymmetric
Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) is reduced from 1 to $1-\varepsilon$ for some
small $\varepsilon>0$. Janowsky and Lebowitz posed the well-known question of
whether such very small perturbations could affect the macroscopic current.
Different groups of physicists, using a range of heuristics and numerical
simulations reached opposing conclusions on whether the critical value of
$\varepsilon$ is 0. This was ultimately resolved rigorously in
Basu-Sidoravicius-Sly which established that $\varepsilon_c=0$.
  Here we study the effect of the current as $\varepsilon$ tends to 0 and in
doing so explain why it was so challenging to predict on the basis of numerical
simulations. In particular we show that the current has an infinite order phase
transition at 0, with the effect of the perturbation tending to 0 faster than
any polynomial. Our proof focuses on the Last Passage Percolation formulation
of TASEP where a slow bond corresponds to reinforcing the diagonal. We give a
multiscale analysis to show that when $\varepsilon$ is small the effect of
reinforcement remains small compared to the difference between optimal and near
optimal geodesics. Since geodesics can be perturbed on many different scales,
we inductively bound the tails of the effect of reinforcement by controlling
the number of near optimal geodesics and giving new tail estimates for the
local time of (near) geodesics along the diagonal.
