Archive - Infrastory

There Was Once a Scheme to Bury Toronto's Railway Tracks

There are pretty unexpected things you can find on a trip to the archives

Jun 15 • Jonathan English

We Often Underestimate Inland Waterway Transport

The hidden backbone of global-continental commerce.

Jun 8 • JRUrbaneNetwork

Megaprojects are inherently unsuccessful …

Because we don't remember them as megaprojects if they work

Jun 1 • Jonathan English

May 2026

Paris' RER Revolution

A city that solved its phone call problems the right way

May 25 • Jonathan English

New York's International Airport Should Have Been in Newark

Infrastructure planning based on arbitrary jurisdictional lines is never a good idea

May 18 • Jonathan English

We’re Living in the Golden Age of Air Travel

Well, if not quite golden, at least we can now afford to fly

May 14 • Jonathan English

The Toronto Model for Transit

Induced demand is real for transit too

May 12 • Jonathan English

Engineering Problems and Phone Call Problems

Perhaps sometimes we really should just phone it in

May 8 • Jonathan English

The Guaranteed Market: How a Weapon to Destroy the World Accidentally Led to the Digital World

(take from that what you will)

May 6 • Jonathan English

How Canada Quietly Took Over the American Oil Market

The unexpected creation of an oil Fortress North America

May 4 • Jonathan English

March 2026

The Miracle We Don't Notice

Welcome to Infrastory

Mar 16 • Jonathan English