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Reece Martin

What Reece Martin thinks about infrastructure

@reece-martin · 20 positions · On ppll ↗

Canadian transit commentator; creator of the RMTransit YouTube channel and founder and principal writer of The Transit Brief, a newsletter on public transit and infrastructure policy. Has written for The Globe and Mail, Maclean's and the Toronto Star.

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  1. Our readingThe high cost of infrastructure in cities like Toronto or New York is driven by multiplicative factors that compound rather than a single primary cause.

    Their wordsthe problem leading to 5 or 10 times more expensive infrastructure in Toronto or New York is not generally that any one thing is being done ten times worse, but that factors are multiplicative - they compound.

    ↗Why transit suddenly costs so much.thetransitbrief.net 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 2 months earlier

  3. Our readingA model of transit building that adds a new line every couple of years is healthier than one that adds them every couple of decades.

    Their wordsI've argued in the past that a model of transit building where you add a new line every couple of years is probably a healthier place than one where you do it every couple of decades because it keeps the institutional capacity to build new infrastructure alive and well.

    ↗Quality Still Matters in Transit.thetransitbrief.net 3rd of 3 in this piece