Jonathan English’s Transit Programming

Transportation and Land Use Fellow Jonathan English’s recent output:

“Canada Must Develop Its Own Trusted-Traveller Program,” an op-ed for the Globe and Mail: “A Canada-only trusted-traveller program is long overdue. It is feasible with minimal new policy or infrastructure, supportive of Canada’s global economic diversification, and entirely consistent with maintaining strong border security. Most of all, it reflects the basic principle that access to Canadian services should be governed, first and foremost, by Canada.”

Making the Grade: Recommendations for Addressing the High Cost of Canada’s Transit Infrastructure, published by the Canadian Standards Association Group and authored by English’s Infrastory Insights (summarized in Canadian Consulting Engineer): “A major investment in rail and transit infrastructure also promises to help counter Canada’s productivity challenges. By connecting workers to jobs, employers to labour pools, and businesses to supply chains, high-quality transit and intercity rail projects can dramatically improve economic efficiency.”

CP24 interview and coverage in “Free Service Kicks Off Opening Day for Long-Delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT”: “It’s the biggest single opening in terms of kilometers in history in Toronto. Even if you just take the underground section, it’s pretty close to as long as the blue Danforth line when it first opened, from Keele to Woodbine in 1966.”