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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Went to a very cool event at the book bar and got a book I'm very excited to read

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We should address sign pollution

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is very good to see but I remain extremely concerned. From Bill Gates interview with Ezra Klein

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw a progress Toronto ad today that was talking about how things are going really well in the city and I just felt gaslit given the state of the transit network. Transit should be a key part of a progressive vision of Toronto and it doesn't feel like it currently is getting much attention.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some nice elevated trains coming to Toronto

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A useful time to share this I guess. . . thetransitbrief.substack.com/p/an-obvious...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Its a shame Toronto doesn't have solar canopies and large EV fast charging stations all over it. Would not cost much and would be actual leadership on EVs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKz...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Canada may well end up being the only large rich country in the world without high speed rail.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is! And its not the only thing there.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But then despite all of the talk of Transit first pro density attitudes, we don't actually build a train station unlike japan!

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just want to hammer this point home. The best of our new age development in Canada like in Japan is built in central locations right next to massive rail infrastructure.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It is just a remarkable blunder on the part of the city and metrolinx that this isn't going to have a dedicated subway station on a brand new line that goes right next to it.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"just put the bikes on residential streets!" Is the innovatien super clusters of transportation policy. Does anyone ever ask why people don't just all drive entirely on residential streets?

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There were tons of slow zones when the current mayor was elected. It's now been several years and things are worse than they were then...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wow those fixes for FIFA really had staying power! When will our politicians going to get serious about fixing the subway? It's had problems for years and years now. Minor street car fixes do not make up the difference....

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We are getting less locomotives (45 not 57) for roughly four times the price (the Kiwis paid about 300m CAD). The fact that this isn't a major news item is crazy.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We should really think about the things that make Toronto and Ontario special and try to better incorporate them into the airport. Vancouver is great at this obviously, but Portlands insane mass timber terminal also has tons of good ideas.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The latest from The Transit Brief - Albertas lost decade and how not to do light rail (after doing it pretty well!) www.thetransitbrief.net/p/is-the-wil...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you can avoid going outside today, working from home, mentioning to your boss that it's very unhealthy to be out if necessary, you should do that. Particular concentration is basically double what it was yesterday.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My latest talks about the ceaseless talk of "automating the trains", and to what extent thats the right answer and even possible! www.thetransitbrief.net/p/automate-t...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Toronto needs to get it together on transit, but something I've previously complained about actually seems like something we might be leading on in NA. Good job Toronto! Actually saw a few vehicles with recently. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Toronto is too slow. This subway line moves more people than the 401 and it appears to operate worse every single year.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It is absolutely nuts that the only transit we are building for this is Finch West 2 Electric Boogaloo

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Why do you complain about transit media coverage in Toronto Reece?

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It feels hard to justify spending effort on "drone-based digital twins" when we aren't using switches from this century and streetcars are often 30 minutes apart for no good reason.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Translink continues to absolutely blow other North American transit agencies out of the water. This is stuff you usually only see in Asia and Europe.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Lets run more trains! Ok, well it makes sense for them to be smaller then! Ok, but then they would have less capacity. Which is why we are running them more often? But, we have like 10 level crossings?

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The first three door low floor bus in Canada. . . . ever? www.reddit.com/r/Translink/...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

GTFS for Finch West and Eglinton . . . a disaster, GTFS for REM . . . perfect, why am I not surprised

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Annoying because there *are* better tram options out there. This one in Munich is from Siemens, and its literally just for regular tram lines! Our vehicles don't even have all double doors!

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Media should hop on this. Entirely fixable but at the moment crazy dangerous. Some reckless person is going to be badly hurt.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Last thing, there is some really nice public art in some places but a lot of the station walls are just blank concrete and are really screaming out to have a mural or something. That's putting aside the somewhat questionable all white "mental institution chic" design language.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Some teenager is going to climb on this like they do on the subway and the GO train and fall between the trains and get completely run over and it will be in part, because we left things in such an unsafe state.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The next train displays are nice, but the actual information on them is frequently incorrect. There also isn't a nice indicator at the terminal stations as to what train is going to leave first.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Much like at Union station and in the path there are some doors that seem to be for fire safety in a couple of places that really ought to be left open and set to close automatically if there's a fire alarm. Having to go through a bunch of double doors. Every time you transfer is annoying.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Trains also stop at the end of every platform rather than in the center and while there is wayfinding it's on the ground instead of on the wall where people are looking at it. Leading to a lot of running to catch one's train.

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