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Reece Martin
@rmtransit.bsky.social
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Writer, Learning Enthusiast, Urbanist, Optimist, Traveller, Canadian. 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
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4h
You can! But not like Toronto
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 8h
Now everyone gets to learn what living in a financial pressure cooker feels like.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 8h
New towns along GO lines remain a great idea while we massively increase our emissions and decrease people's happiness creating commutes to the city from Belleville, Brantford and Barrie.

Idea was supposed to be broad urban densification, but we didn't deliver that before blocking outward growth.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 8h
Everyone in Toronto knows the streetcars are slow and mismanaged (I wish our politicians actually *did* something about this), and yet we spent a generation of transit investments on building what amounts to more of them (which will be poorly run) in places we should have built subways.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 8h
Calgary's failures at least make sense
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
both *are* way too slow however
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, I think the issue is a lot more than funding, it’s more of planning and management
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
By incompetent governance
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
There’s already electrical infrastructure, virtually everywhere and additional chargers along the highways are getting installed every week
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
It’s definitely not the case that half the US population lives in exurban areas, I have family that lives in truly remote places, and they actually would be able to get by with at least one of their cars as an EV today!
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, well you see…
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
Ottawa is actually quite a bit less dysfunctional in my opinion
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe, but I think people can be good at many things
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d
Toronto is where sensible transportation policy mostly can never be allowed to exist
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 2d
If there is a "post RMTransit" project for me, it's probably at the intersection of society / technology / and the environment.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 2d
Huh? Plenty of dense places in NA, uninhabited wilderness is irrelevant
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 2d
Finally someone talking about the issue of a major west coast North America earthquake and how utterly unprepared we are for it.

www.worksinprogress.news/p/a-50-milli...
Predicting earthquakes
Achieving a 10-minute warning would save thousands of lives
www.worksinprogress.news
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4d
I'm strongly anti-subscription!
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4d
What was eye opening?
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4d
It's remarkable hearing people in Canada talk about how the EV mandates are too much and how we can't get enough EVs on the roads while Euro countries are doing way better than us on adoption, and especially cold northern Euro countries.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4d
I think I've realized I'm an environmentalist at heart
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 5d
Transit Should Be Fast, Comfortable, and Safe. Read my thoughts on two recent articles on this topic in my latest article.

nextmetro.substack.com/p/world-tran...
World: Transit Should Be Fast, Comfortable, and Safe.
A Tale of Two Takes.
nextmetro.substack.com
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 5d
I have this food product that I love, made in Canada, B-Corp, it's almost perfect except for one dubious environmental practice. Emailed them about it, hope to hear back and report back.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 7d
My latest blog post on organizing my life...

open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...
Calendars, Spreadsheets, Todos, Chaos.
My Attempt to Create Order.
open.substack.com
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 7d
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