Reece Martin
@rmtransit.bsky.social
Writer, Learning Enthusiast, Urbanist, Optimist, Traveller, Canadian.
Passionate about making the world better.
https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/
https://nextmetro.substack.com/
Passionate about making the world better.
https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/
https://nextmetro.substack.com/
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Reece Martin
@rmtransit.bsky.social
· May 17
RMTransit -> Reece Martin
It's Already Priced Into The Market!
When Many People Know a Thing, Other Things are Inevitable.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It would be cool to teach a course on the Creator economy
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It would be cool to teach a course on the Creator economy
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Bike Share ridership increased 20% in 2025, to a record 8.3 million rides!
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Bike Share ridership increased 20% in 2025, to a record 8.3 million rides!
Its concerning when one of the nations most successful schemes for getting people out of their cars is treated this way by those we put in charge of designing out cities!
I remember being struck by the venom Keesmaat had back in the day for the Go Train even
December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Its concerning when one of the nations most successful schemes for getting people out of their cars is treated this way by those we put in charge of designing out cities!
1000 Stations. Wild. So great. Still should be called Bixi.
Yesterday there were approximately 374 Toronto Bikeshare bikeshare trips
Most used station: Huron St / Harbord St (19 trips)
Least used station: 14 Fuller Ave and 782 others (0 trips)
Active stations: 1000
#bikeTO
Most used station: Huron St / Harbord St (19 trips)
Least used station: 14 Fuller Ave and 782 others (0 trips)
Active stations: 1000
#bikeTO
December 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
1000 Stations. Wild. So great. Still should be called Bixi.
An absolutely masterful explanation of the odyssey that lead Toronto from being a transit leader to a city opening rail lines slower than buses, hard comparisons against asian cities that build subways for the same prices, and a possible path forward (also puns): substack.com/inbox/post/1...
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
An absolutely masterful explanation of the odyssey that lead Toronto from being a transit leader to a city opening rail lines slower than buses, hard comparisons against asian cities that build subways for the same prices, and a possible path forward (also puns): substack.com/inbox/post/1...
I haven't made a video in a year, but Oh The Urbanity has, and today they released an amazing piece on trams as a little Christmas Gift to the world!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...
Why I’m Less Excited About Trams Than You
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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December 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I haven't made a video in a year, but Oh The Urbanity has, and today they released an amazing piece on trams as a little Christmas Gift to the world!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...
2025 is ending... What's RMTransit up to?
YouTube video by RMTransit
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December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How Rural Japanese Trains Still Exist
YouTube video by Life Where I'm From
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December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Almost run over walking at a crosswalk with a green walk sign today with my kid in a stroller . . . By a cop
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Almost run over walking at a crosswalk with a green walk sign today with my kid in a stroller . . . By a cop
Seeing a nice politician who wanted a good city pivot into a trickle down economics reactionary is so sad
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Seeing a nice politician who wanted a good city pivot into a trickle down economics reactionary is so sad
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Finally tried the Finch West LRT and returned via bike share. The bike lanes weren't cleared which slowed me down a bit. www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/12/i-fo...
I Fought the Train and the … Train Won?
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)
www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Finally tried the Finch West LRT and returned via bike share. The bike lanes weren't cleared which slowed me down a bit. www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/12/i-fo...
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It is just so weird that anyone would dismiss the importance of speed. City councils convulse over driver travel times but somehow your time doesn't matter if you're on transit?
Absolutely fantastic piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the Finch light rail and why dismissing speed as some have done is a mistake.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Speed matters
Of time, life and space. Or why transit speed matters.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It is just so weird that anyone would dismiss the importance of speed. City councils convulse over driver travel times but somehow your time doesn't matter if you're on transit?
A lot of people learn stuff like this, and it’s often flat out wrong
Meanwhile at my uni this diagram was shown like this, biased towards slower-speed trams rather than metros 😂
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A lot of people learn stuff like this, and it’s often flat out wrong
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They understood this in 1912
It's taken a concerted effort to get people to un-learn that speed matters
It's taken a concerted effort to get people to un-learn that speed matters
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
They understood this in 1912
It's taken a concerted effort to get people to un-learn that speed matters
It's taken a concerted effort to get people to un-learn that speed matters
Reposted by Reece Martin
Speed Matters.
Some thoughts about transit and speed, life, space and time.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Some thoughts about transit and speed, life, space and time.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Speed matters
Of time, life and space. Or why transit speed matters.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Speed Matters.
Some thoughts about transit and speed, life, space and time.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Some thoughts about transit and speed, life, space and time.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Absolutely fantastic piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the Finch light rail and why dismissing speed as some have done is a mistake.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Speed matters
Of time, life and space. Or why transit speed matters.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Absolutely fantastic piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the Finch light rail and why dismissing speed as some have done is a mistake.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
One of the reasons Toronto has problems with its transit is the very poor quality of its discourse. In this post, I try to answer the simple question: What is an LRT?
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
Nobody Knows What An "LRT" Is (Except for the Germans, sort of...).
A Great Problem Which Still Haunts Us.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One of the reasons Toronto has problems with its transit is the very poor quality of its discourse. In this post, I try to answer the simple question: What is an LRT?
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
I guess the follow on to that was that Rob Ford was right. "Light rail" in Toronto is just a streetcar. There was over a decade there that those who suggested otherwise could have made it so, and yet . . .
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I guess the follow on to that was that Rob Ford was right. "Light rail" in Toronto is just a streetcar. There was over a decade there that those who suggested otherwise could have made it so, and yet . . .
I got so much crap from people over the years for suggesting that tunneling / elevating the Eglinton Crosstown west of Mount Dennis was unnecessary and wasteful and that surface operations would be *just* as fast for far less.
Sigh, I wish people had taken me seriously then!
Sigh, I wish people had taken me seriously then!
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I got so much crap from people over the years for suggesting that tunneling / elevating the Eglinton Crosstown west of Mount Dennis was unnecessary and wasteful and that surface operations would be *just* as fast for far less.
Sigh, I wish people had taken me seriously then!
Sigh, I wish people had taken me seriously then!
Some of our biggest problems have causes that seem to perplex many people. In my latest blog post I discuss this in great detail.
open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...
open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...
Problems of Grand Crystallized Dysfunction.
A Story of Housing and Public Transport.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some of our biggest problems have causes that seem to perplex many people. In my latest blog post I discuss this in great detail.
open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...
open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...
Reposted by Reece Martin
@rmtransit.bsky.social on why an Ottawa-Montreal starter HSR line is a good idea. For one, it includes both Ontario and Quebec segments, which is important politically.
“A smaller project also ultimately means a shorter timeline, lower cost, and less risk — it’s a good way to get the ball rolling.”
“A smaller project also ultimately means a shorter timeline, lower cost, and less risk — it’s a good way to get the ball rolling.”
High Speed Rail in Canada Really Might Happen.
Some hope at the end of a long week.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
@rmtransit.bsky.social on why an Ottawa-Montreal starter HSR line is a good idea. For one, it includes both Ontario and Quebec segments, which is important politically.
“A smaller project also ultimately means a shorter timeline, lower cost, and less risk — it’s a good way to get the ball rolling.”
“A smaller project also ultimately means a shorter timeline, lower cost, and less risk — it’s a good way to get the ball rolling.”
Reposted by Reece Martin
I will hold any consideration until the actual alignment options for Alto HSR are known, but once again we are probably gonna see the curse of anglosphere urbanism on HSR, i.e. the financial and political burden of routing rail through our infinite sprawl for (not?) getting to downtown.
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I will hold any consideration until the actual alignment options for Alto HSR are known, but once again we are probably gonna see the curse of anglosphere urbanism on HSR, i.e. the financial and political burden of routing rail through our infinite sprawl for (not?) getting to downtown.
What do we think of the whole effective altruism thing?
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
What do we think of the whole effective altruism thing?