Sitemap - 2023 - Reece Martin

Goodbye Substack, Where to Find Me.

Pausing Substack.

The Case for Underground.

Making Subway Systems Accessible to All

Transit's Shiny Object Problem.

Toronto and Chicago, A Tale of Two Cities - Part 3A: Suburban Rail Today

Table of Contents

Off Topic: The Sleepstack.

The Problems with the Eglinton Crosstown are just getting started.

Loading Multipliers and Busy Metros

Off Topic: Let people take their pictures.

A Rapid Bus Line and a Taste of Bliss.

How better transit might be making Canada worse

A Lot More is Coming in 2024.

Toronto's Transportation Trade is Very Good

The Logic Missing from LA's Rapid Transit System

The Manhattan congestion charge will be transformational for public transit. But something is still missing.

The Good and Bad of Berlin Transit: Pt. 2

The Transit Chicken-and-Egg Problem: Redux

Another Very Good North American Railway Station: East Harbour

Toronto and Chicago, A Tale of Two Cities - Part 2B: Suburban Bus Transit

Off Topic: Tech Companies Should Build Better Batteries

Toronto and Chicago, A Tale of Two Cities - Part 2A: Urban Bus Transit

London's Confusing Railways

Buses can be amazing.

Halloween special sale!

A big metro system with few riders?

The Good and Bad of Berlin Transit

Transit Terminology Really Matters

The Complication of Cummer Station and the Case Against It

Toronto and Chicago, A Tale of Two Cities - Part 1: Rapid Transit

Google Maps' decline and untapped potential.

The Transit Chicken-and-Egg Problem

The Cancellation of HS2 North should be a warning.

Vancouver (And the Pacific Northwest) should invest more in earthquake resilience.

American Transit and Canadian Transit are Different

The IBX Plan and its Potential

Can Toronto's Airport Express finally truly take off?

Please... space the bus stops out.

Off Topic: What I learned writing over 1 million words in 3 years.

Finally, Toronto's missing link is here!

The Good and the Bad of German Transit

A Tale of Two Cities: Toronto and Chicago's Transit Divergence

People Movers can be a good solution.

Transfers are a thing - Pt. 2

Is Contactless the Worldwide-Integrated transit card?

The Good and the Bad of Australian Transit

The Quebec City Tram is very exciting.

How to make Montreal's Metro perfect.

Making the 401 (and highways in general) less terrible.

News coverage of transit is broken.

I've taken a ride on the Montreal REM. I’m sad, but optimistic.

Transfers are a thing - Pt. 1

My new apartment doesn't have parking! What do I do?

Rail or Bus for Orbital Transit Systems

The REM de l'Est Report is here, and it's not good.

What could a long term vision for a REM network in Montreal look like?

Montreal's Transit Disaster

A Personal Update and When it's okay to use Cars

Renovate and Refurbish Things, PLEASE!

American High Speed Rail advocates should be cost advocates.

The nicest new railway station in North America is coming to Toronto, and nobody is talking about it: Exhibition Station

Ridesharing has been good for urbanism.

A network to last: Rail and bike urbanism

Dumb Mode and Cost Battles.

Why train journeys are different from bus journeys

Transit should be fast.

Canals: the pleasure of unimpeded urban strolls

When pedantry gets in the way of good transport.

A Standard Metro Train for America

The Past Isn't the Answer to Urban Transport

Transit isn't just for going to work.

Fighting Bad Faith Planning

The Eglinton Crosstown is delayed again. What's wrong with this project?

Bad Faith Planning and Its Impact on Transit

Free Fares and Washington DC - Redux

The Big Problem that lets me do so many things.

High Floor LRT is not "obsolete".

Regional Rail without Mass Transit.

A few years of progress for Toronto

Mass Transit without Regional Rail.

High costs are killing US transit projects.

Imperfect Progress is Still Progress

The "Not From Here" Problem for Transit Advocacy

Transit Agencies Should Leverage Their Supporters

Guelph, Waterloo, and Tram Trains

What is happening with the UP Express?

Elevated Highways are NOT like Elevated Transit

The usefulness of transit is still unpredictable.

Transit Services are Complementary

My thoughts on New York's lnterborough Express as Light Rail

Analyzing Toronto's new Urban Regional Rail Stations: Unionville

What if the Spadina streetcar *was* rapid transit?