Reece 🚇 @RM_Transit Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Two Subway Stations. No Subway Stations. Toronto desperately needs to 180 the places it puts growth.

21

29

559

Last Seen Profiles

@ProudHaryana

@chaewons1stfan

@Gstotelmyer

@heyDejan

@NaturalistDara

@fandetv

@kavindya_T

@loveholliejo

@sorairoichigo

@computerwarez

@history_alice

@burberriss

@Nouth23288096

@dcana

@sfeve6

@MasonSoftball

@windowsblog

@danrivoli

@MajorCantrell8

@jiella4sure

@Antalpha_Labs

@Groundsman_hake

@HubbleExchange

@JanisIkstens

@EmilyHarnett2

@GamingOblivion

@12baegirl

@Gays_Cruising

@inkonbtc

@sash041075

@Instagram_Lies

@JoinCrowdHealth

@mntserco75

@JonathanTBauer

@salmonnter

@RookyOnTwt

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

27 days

The continued decline of Google Maps

Oh The Urbanity!

@OhUrbanity

27 days

Edmonton's new Valley Line has some great views, but for some strange reason it's still not visible on Google Maps 5 months after opening?!

11

12

301

35

104

5K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Eyes roll 360 degrees backwards

55

177

3K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

8 months

Even Tesla knows the best way to get a lot of people from place to place . . .

Tesla Europe & Middle East

@teslaeurope

8 months

Giga Berlin now has its own train shuttle, capable of moving 400 people per ride 🚆

581

1K

10K

17

203

3K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

It is remarkable how much worse than . . . a subway this is. No next train screen, no auto opening doors, no level boarding for accessibility, and the wait is . . . pretty long! Definitely more than 2 - 4 minutes a subway can do!

Snazzy Labs

@SnazzyLabs

4 months

Join me on a ride in Elon Musk’s “should-have-been-an-airport-shuttle” car tunnel.

139

60

1K

70

143

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

💍

210

22

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

10 months

Really satisfying to see “rip up the terrible bike lanes” is the election loser it should be

10

119

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 month

Insert Joke about how America is literally more willing to build a comprehensive electrified train system in space than on Earth

YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

1 month

Holy Based. Moon Train built by Northrop Grumman!?

24

27

316

12

110

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

We can't fit more tracks in this rail corridor! Tokyo: Just watch me.

26

109

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

5 months

It snowed 40 cm last night and cars are buried, meanwhile Montreals cyclists are taking to the REV undeterred - build it and they will come certainly applies to bikes

31

193

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

8 months

Santiago is awesome, it had 4 metro lines 10 years ago, today it has 6 and in 10 years it will have 9. Low construction costs do wonders.

35

137

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

10 months

We shouldn’t build transit because trains are loud is really something, like have you ever stood next to a road?

35

112

2K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

8 months

Oh my.

Indian Tech & Infra

@IndianTechGuide

8 months

Mumbai on the verge of huge transformation. 📸 - ompsyram

436

890

18K

29

28

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Regular reminder that elevated rail is faster to build, less expensive to build, and that means more transit faster, and great views!

Qagggy!

@Qagggy

2 months

Vienna’s Seestadt U-Bahn extension demonstrates how high-capacity transit can link a community without dividing it.

8

42

386

21

141

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

Toronto: “90 second rail headways are impossible!” Vancouver: “Hold my Compass card”

44

146

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Elevated Rail is so loud and disruptive, nobody would want to walk near it!

77

85

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

Montreal is a great city, it punches way above its weight frankly

35

36

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

... ouch.

32

78

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

A reminder that like most things elevated rail can be amazing if well implemented

Wazza from Melbourne

@Melbourne_says

9 months

This is why the Andrews government's level crossing removal projects are so amazing. What once used to be just train tracks and weeds are now playgrounds, bike lanes, native grasslands, and places to work out outside. The best place to wander while sipping on a soy latte too.😉

84

197

2K

23

100

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

Didn't ever think this would happen . . . Video below! Thank you so much for 5 years of community, support and eyes :D

72

19

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Urbanists talk a lot about Amsterdam, and Copenhagen and Paris, and FAR FAR too little about Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

71

56

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

Rail lines are not pollution

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

4 months

Tell me this isn't the most frustrating thing you've ever seen. We're burying most of this train line for literally no reason at all. Ballooning costs, just so people don't have to look at a train in a flat field.

279

350

4K

11

41

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

Something about coupling 4 low floor trams together screams - “should have built a metro”, to me

Oran V

@oranv

9 months

This is the 1 Line

5

12

414

34

50

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

We should progressively electrify North Americas railways, the benefits would be broad and enormous

Eyezak

@Eyezak_M

2 months

@alanthefisher is right. Electric freight better than Diesel freight

9

32

231

26

72

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

5 months

Good public transit makes me happy.

8

36

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

If you want peak urban transit don't look to the Netherlands

53

40

985

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

Contemporary urbanism is too Eurocentric, so much to be learned from Asian and Latin American cities - often with more relevance to North America

25

94

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

That Canadian High Speed Rail support poll is nuts, how often do you get 80+% support for something that isn't like puppies?!

21

50

1K

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The rain sucks, but our automated train doesn’t care and speeds along past the traffic!

12

33

930

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

I really think the transit enthusiasts of the world are a massive untapped opportunity for transit agencies. So rarely does there exist a group of people *so* deeply interested in something an organization does.

30

67

933

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

There are a lot of short haul flights we need to be replacing with rail journeys if we want to get serious about reducing emissions. Airlines be warned.

30

63

915

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

Trains keeping winning

Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

20cm+ of snowfall, very low visibility, cars snowed in, streets not fully plowed, Uber / Lyft difficult to hail-- but you know what still runs just fine despite all this? Traaiiiiiins, tchoo tchoo! 🚈 @GRT_ROW great job!!

24

155

2K

10

68

930

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

The Quality of TOD in Vancouver is unlike anything else in North Americ

29

35

909

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

In Montreal streets are for people, so excited for the Yonge rebuild in Toronto

12

46

916

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

6 months

It’s frustrating that those leading Canadas biggest transit projects and systems are often deeply unfamiliar with transit.

JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

6 months

Laughs in Hong Kong.

44

58

1K

36

76

908

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

You know what doesn't happen often when you drive everywhere? You don't just run into friends randomly . . . twice this week I've been walking about and just bumped into friends doing the same. These interactions feel a bit like being back in uni, and make living in a city fun!

17

55

901

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Poles are good, build more poles.

36

17

886

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The first people paying to ride the REM are mostly from Toronto 😂

17

25

885

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

This is an obvious and good idea

Taylor Bachrach

@taylorbachrach

4 months

To realize the potential of passenger rail in Canada, the government must ensure trains are able to run on time. My Bill C-371, the Rail Passenger Priority Act, will do that by giving passenger trains priority on Canadian tracks.

28

96

708

28

49

877

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

LOL, Terrible country design

37

13

872

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Honolulu is unironically planning on shutting it's new automated rail line down after 7PM every day!?!?!?!?!?!?! And run only every 10 minutes? I get that the alignment isn't great for ridership. but . . . OH MY GOD

What Honolulu rail riders can expect

Full story on Khon2.comHawaii News, Hawaii Weather, Hawaii SportsSee more of the team that is Working for Hawaii on our website: https://www.khon2.comStay in...

www.youtube.com

30

22

841

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

12 days

Eyes roll 360 degrees backwards

32

9

856

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Urbanism? Txdot is way ahead of you.

30

38

848

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

:O

19

18

831

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

I am probably the biggest booster there is of Torontos transit expansion, it’s the best in North America (LA is arguably bigger but it’s a lot worse IMHO) BUT today I want to talk about 5 major problems with it, if you enjoy please like and RT - not going to pull my punches.

8

106

832

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

8 months

Damn those North American cities and their Park and Rides!

29

108

828

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

Passing traffic on the highway on the new @REMgrandmtl

22

54

796

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

12 days

Nothing could better highlight the difference in vision between Toronto and Vancouver on transit. When Vancouvers airport train got busy what did they do? Ordered more trains and run more service! (Every 6 mins or better to the airport!)

8

50

800

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

This is complete madness. A tram route - nearly 20 kilometers or not should NOT cost *billions* of dollars. The original ION route cost 25% as much! @cambridge_today

Price tag for bringing ION to downtown Cambridge set at $4.5 billion

'No government is going to give $4.46 billion to Cambridge around an LRT,' said Coun. Doug Craig

www.cambridgetoday.ca

55

79

786

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Transit will never recover they said, the 9-5 is dead they said.

11

38

779

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

California does not lead on clean rail transportation - see Switzerland, China, India, etc

Caltrans HQ

@CaltransHQ

2 months

California leads in clean transportation, continues to expand zero-emission hydrogen-powered passenger rail fleet. 🚈🚝🛤️ Read more: #trains #zeroemission #rebuildingca

120

11

58

10

46

794

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 years

If we want more transit we really need to start prioritizing having transit projects cost a reasonable amount.

24

39

779

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Good job Toronto, notice how many parking spots this high rise is going to have. The fundamental pressure this is going to create will force us to fix a lot of our problems.

26

770

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

5 months

Toronto used to build slab towers which are more affordable and create better units. As far as I know, we can’t build this anymore for what are essentially aesthetic reasons. it seems pretty obvious to me that we should go back. #bringbacktheslab

75

46

769

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

I think people get the vibe that Tokyo is some sort of mega sized Blade Runner metropolis, and if thats what you want you can absolutely find it. But, more than any city Tokyo made me appreciate a good pedestrian experience with places like this.

20

71

773

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

I love thé Montréal Metro

24

13

756

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

6 months

I flew across the ocean to ride the Elizabeth Line but it’s feeling kind of shabby now… 1) Stained walls :0 2) Way too many services stopping at Paddington 3) Mice in what are otherwise pristine stations?! 4) Wayfinding that doesn’t work for the variable service pattern!

109

24

744

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Regular reminder Google should overhaul maps

33

23

732

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Elevated rail is good, and I refuse to accept arguments that it is an environmental detriment in cities which have majority auto modeshare.

25

40

732

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

10 months

Toronto feels like it's approaching the Ontario Line like it's the last subway we will ever build, when in reality given our growth we should probably be planning for several more.

21

45

722

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Few ride the slow train between Toronto and Montreal, so why build a fast train! Wonderful logic.

uospɹɐɥɔᴉɹ uᴉʌǝʞ 🇨🇦🇦🇬🏳️‍🌈 Limp Wristkit

@KORichardson

7 months

Quebec-Toronto corridor | A TGV "is not the right product", warns a former VIA Rail advisor | La Presse

9

1

10

24

32

721

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

The worst part about the Eglinton Crosstown is that once it opens we will realize it shouldn’t have been LRT

35

45

708

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

Montreal is so aggressive with opening the doors on the metro, they even do it before the train has stopped

90

16

709

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

6 months

Who’s going to tell them

Steven Ashley

@steveashleyplus

6 months

Boston's Green Line Extension was built using prefabricated rail ties w/ a rail gauge that was too narrow... 50% of the Union Square branch and 80% of the Medford/Tufts branch will need to be "regauged" -- disassembled, redrilled and reinstalled... (WGBH)

5

8

101

26

33

715

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

6 months

Currently have waited over 10 minutes for a train on Line 1 in downtown Toronto. I don’t know what the TTC is doing but off peak headways have been horrible for what feels like over a year. Trains should not be packed like this at 9PM Current leadership is driving people away

24

52

696

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Incredible

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

2 months

Watch out, lower cellphone bills can have unforeseen consequences

230

46

190

12

34

701

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

How does Vancouver manage to move ~4 times more people on the SkyTrain Metro network than Portland does on its *larger* light rail network? Two things: 1) Crazy Great TOD 2) As the guy behind me said to his friend: "Idk man I just always take SkyTrain its way faster than driving"

30

56

692

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

Toronto getting a streetcar route that is at best marginally faster than a bus for *More* money than other cities build subways is why we can't have nice things.

JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

3 months

So there you have it. The Finch West median tramway costs more than a metro in Spain, Italy, Turkey, S Korea and China but will effectively have the same travel time as the 36 Finch West local bus it replaced.

3

17

122

18

64

689

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

Exciting to see so many Brightline trains sold out - time for more cars maybe!

25

30

680

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

I grew up skiing every weekend in Vancouver but had a big injury 7 years ago and stopped going. Moral of the story: Get back on the horse. Not bad for the first run in 7 years!

27

4

669

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The REM doing what it intended. This is epic!

16

36

664

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

It’s very unfortunate that some folks are suggesting that those who critique expensive (extremely expensive) transit projects are undermining transit as a whole. I’d suggest reflecting on why so little transit has gotten built in the last two decades.

48

46

656

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Canada is on a huge growth trajectory, and Toronto is too. High speed rail makes sense and we shouldn’t wait for a “someday” project in a few decades.

16

56

651

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

10 months

On the Stouffville GO Line today, standing room only, demand is huge. So naturally Metrolinx has *cut* service on the line for no apparent (or communicated) reason. Not good!

19

31

646

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Oof

28

23

638

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Enjoyed a chat today in the Beautiful City of Toronto with none other than Dave Amos of @CityBeautifulYT !

13

8

639

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

Imagine taking one of your few killer features and uh . . . killing it

Ramsey Kilani 🌐🔰

@Ramsey_Kilani

3 months

Why is @VIA_Rail weighing bags now???? Trains are not airplanes! Weight is not a problem here!

46

26

654

10

16

633

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

Everyone enjoying the REM!

10

17

618

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

6 months

Lol $6.8 B for a transit project of this magnitude in the US is NOTHING~!

Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

6 months

$6.8 Billion to electrify basically all Amtrak services in California. But apparently that being half the cost of a 3 mile BART extension is too much of a capital cost for the state...

28

122

1K

11

23

611

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 month

Judging a city’s transit system by how “impressive” its map looks is often not a good idea. Vancouver moves about 5 times more people on the shorter SkyTrain system with less stations. A way bigger success story. And obviously SkyTrain to UBC is the natural plan.

Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

1 month

As I study this Portland Oregon train/tram map I can't help but think we may have made a terrible mistake in Vancouver building underground subways and SkyTrain. Hopefully we will build light rail to UBC and elsewhere throughout the region.

85

6

58

27

45

620

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Most of the worlds high speed rail is frequent comfortable and reliable, and it’s fast! None of this is mutually exclusive.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

7 months

“It would be quite a breakthrough in Canada to have a train that departs and arrives on time. In Japan, it’s down to the second. And certainly in Europe, you can depend on it. Frequency, reliability and comfort would, in my mind, rate above high speed.”

58

109

798

12

51

614

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

The deafening sounds of an elevated train !

42

29

618

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The United States is not known for its great transit systems, but many of those same systems are getting better and better every single year. Find out more in today's video!

19

63

598

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

I am moving, more in article:

71

22

592

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

20 days

The density of different suburbs is SOOOOO underappreciated.

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

20 days

Really good video!

2

7

126

27

32

591

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

5 months

So cool, the lack of bogies under the middle carriages is wild

ianVisits

@ianvisits

5 months

Yesterday I was in Germany, on a visit to a giant model railway set - the huge Siemens Mobility train testing centre -- to ride in one of their new Piccadilly line trains which will be carrying passengers from 2025. Quick video from the sidelines...

35

140

1K

14

22

588

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The Eglinton Crosstown should have been automated metro like the REM

20

22

579

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The most dedicated day 1 REM riders coming in from Brossard

6

23

575

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

if you’re not from Toronto, it’s hard to describe how many high rises are going up here!

27

21

567

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Imagine if the TTC just did what every other transit system did and set some gates to in and some gates to out. Safer, better passenger flow, more reasonable, but they don't. Just one piece of why Toronto feels like a city that doesn't work, there's a lack of care.

44

20

570

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

This week Stadler flew me out to see their factory in Salt Lake City, and it was really impressive. What I think is most notable is that the trains feel much more similar to the European models than we are used to, that’s a good thing!

15

26

578

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Which one is your favourite?

28

42

575

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

3 months

It's so painfully obvious that Las Vegas should have some sort of mass rapid transit system.

Once a Sports Desert, Las Vegas Bets Big on Luring Pro Leagues

Fueled by legal sports betting, the Nevada city has poured billions into new stadiums and arenas. As it hosts Super Bowl LVIII, Vegas is ready to show off its latest reinvention.

www.bloomberg.com

26

21

579

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

5 months

All I want for Christmas is more public transit in Canada

13

43

577

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

1 year

Watch me on TVO tonight

Harrison Lowman

@harrisonlowman

1 year

Tonight on @TheAgenda 8/11pm: @RM_Transit tells us how fare integration could transform the GTHA transit system. Ford govt is promising a fully funded fare integration program by the end of this year that will include Toronto and surrounding regions. Will it happen?

3

14

146

21

29

567

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

The REM is going to change transit in Montreal forever, it is SO fast and smooth. And the views are incredible too.

12

22

574

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

7 months

Toronto is a big city, I think the whole “we can’t build subways, LRT is enough” phase was a big mistake. We really need the capacity of subways, Toronto transit is busy!

16

27

562

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

4 months

Hyperloop is not a real technology. Good thing we have an alternative high speed zero emissions transport technology already deployed around the world for decades.

9

57

572

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

9 months

It tells you a lot how different Canadian and American transit is that most of the complaints I’ve heard about the REM today are about the (temporary) “painfully low” 7 minute headways

13

22

558

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

Overhead wire electrification is sooo much more efficient than hydrogen, this is painful.

California Transit Nerd

@riley_gdr

2 months

Quick little @CaltransHQ roast for hydrogen trains By ZE they mean hydrogen most of which isn't green hydrogen I love how much this next slide bends the truth What are we going to run 2-3 of these sets on most service, 250 seats isn't a lot an 90mph top speed sucks

14

19

148

16

54

563

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

8 months

Park and Ride! Ha! The Dutch would never do such a thing, unlike the foolish North Americans!

24

16

555