Infrastory
Jonathan English, JRUrbaneNetworkEssays on the systems and networks that built the modern world.
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A Lot of Conventional Wisdom about Toronto Transit is Wrong
History in popular memory is often a game of broken telephone. Stories get garbled and myths get repeated until they simply become what everyone knows happened. But when you go back to the original documents, you often find yourself quite s...
Freight and Passenger Rail Have Different Needs
We all know that Europe and Asia are the home of modern passenger rail, while North America lags far behind. Canada’s mainline railways move about 36 passenger-kilometres per capita[1] each year, while the European Union’s move 984. What ma...
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...
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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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