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
Generations of Canadians are being crushed by housing prices so that older generations, and lucky young people can live without too many other humans polluting their cities. If you have a NIMBY family member, or someone moaning about their homes value atm, I hope you give them grief!
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Generations of Canadians are being crushed by housing prices so that older generations, and lucky young people can live without too many other humans polluting their cities. If you have a NIMBY family member, or someone moaning about their homes value atm, I hope you give them grief!
Oh the Urbanity has a great initiative to help them make more videos covering more cities and public transit. If you can help them it would make a big difference!
youtu.be/IAqIet-HbMI?...
youtu.be/IAqIet-HbMI?...
I need your help to make these videos
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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January 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Oh the Urbanity has a great initiative to help them make more videos covering more cities and public transit. If you can help them it would make a big difference!
youtu.be/IAqIet-HbMI?...
youtu.be/IAqIet-HbMI?...
Watch this video as someone familiar with Toronto streetcars and try not be be sad / annoyed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkC...
Trams in Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭 | 2024
YouTube video by Aviationvlad
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January 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Watch this video as someone familiar with Toronto streetcars and try not be be sad / annoyed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkC...
Want to know what's broken with transit in Canada? Often the same things broken in other areas, government willing to charge taxpayers huge amounts to keep votes in select communities
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Want to know what's broken with transit in Canada? Often the same things broken in other areas, government willing to charge taxpayers huge amounts to keep votes in select communities
The New Year’s Goal Blitz ...
What I'm Doing to Build Momentum.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
A bit wild that I can buy a Chinese car in Canada soon, but I can't buy a Chinese phone
January 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
A bit wild that I can buy a Chinese car in Canada soon, but I can't buy a Chinese phone
To be clear, the finch light rail being shut down because of snow in Canada is nuts. I personally had to dig my household out of probably thousands of pounds of it and it wasn't fun but this is a literal rail system! Just feels like an extension of the mismanagement.
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
To be clear, the finch light rail being shut down because of snow in Canada is nuts. I personally had to dig my household out of probably thousands of pounds of it and it wasn't fun but this is a literal rail system! Just feels like an extension of the mismanagement.
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The young, educated, ambitious people who want to live in Toronto and Vancouver are being forced out by high prices.
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities
Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal combined now account for less than half of new immigrants
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The young, educated, ambitious people who want to live in Toronto and Vancouver are being forced out by high prices.
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
"LRT" . . . Sigh
Part of why we don't get better is because our reporting is not very good.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Part of why we don't get better is because our reporting is not very good.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
January 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"LRT" . . . Sigh
Part of why we don't get better is because our reporting is not very good.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Part of why we don't get better is because our reporting is not very good.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Japanese Google Maps bug is back
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Japanese Google Maps bug is back
V cool
Governor Hochul will announce an extension of the Second Avenue Subway to 125th and Broadway in her State of the State address on Tuesday. buff.ly/2qxRQs6
Westward Ho! Hochul Proposes to Extend Second Ave. Subway Along 125th Street to Broadway - Streetsblog New York City
The next step for the Second Avenue Subway is west across 125th Street to Broadway, Gov. Hochul will announce Tuesday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
V cool
Reposted by Reece Martin
Governor Hochul will announce an extension of the Second Avenue Subway to 125th and Broadway in her State of the State address on Tuesday. buff.ly/2qxRQs6
Westward Ho! Hochul Proposes to Extend Second Ave. Subway Along 125th Street to Broadway - Streetsblog New York City
The next step for the Second Avenue Subway is west across 125th Street to Broadway, Gov. Hochul will announce Tuesday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 13, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Governor Hochul will announce an extension of the Second Avenue Subway to 125th and Broadway in her State of the State address on Tuesday. buff.ly/2qxRQs6
Rob Ford was famously very into subways, and people often take this to mean that there’s something wrong with subways. In today’s post, I talk about how even a broken clock is right twice a day.
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
Even a broken clock ...
Where I reflect.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Rob Ford was famously very into subways, and people often take this to mean that there’s something wrong with subways. In today’s post, I talk about how even a broken clock is right twice a day.
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
Every time I come back to social media I'm reminded how happy I was when I was away
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Every time I come back to social media I'm reminded how happy I was when I was away
It's frequently weird talking about transit as a nonpartisan
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
It's frequently weird talking about transit as a nonpartisan
Good piece from @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social (www.tvo.org/article/anal...) on transit debates in Toronto. But, I think the characterization of subways has the same issues it did in the 2010s - and one that the Ford brother certainly fell for - that they have to be underground!
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January 11, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Good piece from @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social (www.tvo.org/article/anal...) on transit debates in Toronto. But, I think the characterization of subways has the same issues it did in the 2010s - and one that the Ford brother certainly fell for - that they have to be underground!
Of my ~300,000 followers / subscribers 20% are Canadian - about 60,000 - Canada has a ratio of ~1500 people for every dentist, so assuming dentists are as interested in watching my content as anyone else I must have a bunch of dentist followers?
Inquire for more 👀
Inquire for more 👀
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Of my ~300,000 followers / subscribers 20% are Canadian - about 60,000 - Canada has a ratio of ~1500 people for every dentist, so assuming dentists are as interested in watching my content as anyone else I must have a bunch of dentist followers?
Inquire for more 👀
Inquire for more 👀
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Turns out having shoulder stations is important if you ever need to reduce or close your main station
@rmtransit.bsky.social
@rmtransit.bsky.social
Ungewohnt leer: Dresden Hauptbahnhof.
Ungewohnt voll: Dresden-Neustadt.
(4/5)
Ungewohnt voll: Dresden-Neustadt.
(4/5)
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Turns out having shoulder stations is important if you ever need to reduce or close your main station
@rmtransit.bsky.social
@rmtransit.bsky.social
Several people seem annoyed that I wrote something in the star saying "we need more subways and regional rail" and are going on about how thats not what we *really* need (apparently we *really* need signal priority and lanes) and how we need "all of the above".
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Several people seem annoyed that I wrote something in the star saying "we need more subways and regional rail" and are going on about how thats not what we *really* need (apparently we *really* need signal priority and lanes) and how we need "all of the above".
Do you have social media savvy? I'm spinning up a sort of micro-advocacy group with a few other transit folks and we need to find someone who can run a couple social accounts (mostly just a post here and there!). Hopefully this will get some notoriety!
January 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Do you have social media savvy? I'm spinning up a sort of micro-advocacy group with a few other transit folks and we need to find someone who can run a couple social accounts (mostly just a post here and there!). Hopefully this will get some notoriety!
I'm involved in this project, if it takes off it would be huge. If you have money to donate / spend on results to change Canada / North America for the better I think this is the place
I'm funding Paige via Canadian Civil at the $10/month level because no one else is doing nuanced Canadian technocratic journalism like he is.
site.canadiancivil.com/projects/
site.canadiancivil.com/projects/
January 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I'm involved in this project, if it takes off it would be huge. If you have money to donate / spend on results to change Canada / North America for the better I think this is the place
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I want to sit policymakers who think these kinds of alignments are okay in front of a game of Subway Builder, so they can visualize what curve radius does to travel time.
Subway Builder
Craft the subway system your city deserves
www.subwaybuilder.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I want to sit policymakers who think these kinds of alignments are okay in front of a game of Subway Builder, so they can visualize what curve radius does to travel time.
Let’s avoid making another terrible transit mistake - read my latest article now:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
Another Affront to Speed.
Another Slow Toronto Transit Project in the Works.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Let’s avoid making another terrible transit mistake - read my latest article now:
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
People seem to think I don't think surface or local transit matters, nothing could be further from the truth, I just think we have the balance off in Toronto. The red lines on this map are local and surface transit, and the rapid transit ...
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
People seem to think I don't think surface or local transit matters, nothing could be further from the truth, I just think we have the balance off in Toronto. The red lines on this map are local and surface transit, and the rapid transit ...
