Infrastory
Jonathan English, JRUrbaneNetworkEssays on the systems and networks that built the modern world.
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The Greatest Procurement Fiascos of All
In November 2025, the US Navy killed its latest ship program. The Constellation Class frigates were supposed to be the ship procurement program that finally went right. This time, instead of trying to design something ultra-complex with adv...
Airports for the Supersonic Age
Aviation grew at a remarkable pace in the postwar decades.
There were only four decades between the flimsy propeller planes of the 1930s and the Concorde in the 1970s. In that time, airports massively changed form, evolving from, in many...
How the Interstates Remade the American Map
The U.S. Interstate Highway System was a sharp break from the way infrastructure had previously been planned and built. It was built as a complete network to a uniform standard, serving every corner of the country, with limited concern abou...
The Northeast Corridor's Three-Headed Monster
If we think that troubled rail projects are a recent story, it’s worth being reminded that they’re nothing new. The Northeast Corridor Improvement Project was the United States’ first real attempt at high-speed rail, a program from the 1970...
Los Angeles could do with more buses
The Toronto Model for transit, which I laid out at some length in an earlier post, is all about looking after the basics. You establish a grid of frequent bus routes running along all major arterials, so that the buses blanket the entire ci...
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Jonathan English is a writer and infrastructure policy consultant. He is a Fellow at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management. He writes about infrastructure, history, and the systems that built the modern world.
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