Priya Menon
Infrastructure Contributor
Priya Menon covers tunneling, ports, rail corridors, and the procurement choices that determine whether large public works become durable assets or permanent disputes.
Articles by Priya Menon
The Ford Model T: A Revolutionary Car With a Terrible Dark Side
How the Ford Model T put America on wheels — and built a legacy of death traps, worker exploitation, wealth inequality and antisemitism
The Interoceanic Corridor: Mexico's Attempt at a Panama Canal Rival
Inside Mexico's Interoceanic Corridor across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a centuries-old dream revived to rival the Panama Canal with rail, ports, industry
The Laerdal Tunnel: The Longest Road Tunnel in the World
Inside Norway's 24.5 km Laerdal Tunnel, the longest road tunnel on Earth, where psychologists helped engineers fight driver fatigue and fear
Montreal's Mirabel Airport: A Disaster From Start to Finish
How Montreal's Mirabel Airport went from the world's largest airport to a $500 million failure that lost its passengers and was finally demolished
The Mosul Dam: Iraq's Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
Iraq's Mosul Dam sits on soluble gypsum that's been dissolving for decades. If it fails, a 45-meter wave could reach Baghdad and kill up to a million
Narco-Subs: The Undersea Kingpin of the Global Drug Trade
How drug cartels build narco-submarines in jungle shipyards to smuggle tons of cocaine across oceans, and why most of them are never found
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