Reece Martin

Writer & Reader & Communicator. YouTuber. Focused on infrastructure & technology. Bylines: Globe & Mail, Maclean's, Toronto Star.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

This website increasingly feels to me like Facebook did maybe a decade ago. An orgy of arguments, inflammatory everything, bots, and civilization destabilizers. This is it for me, I should have left long ago, will leave the DMs open. A short final thread. . .

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

This website increasingly feels to me like Facebook did maybe a decade ago. An orgy of arguments, inflammatory everything, bots, and civilization destabilizers. This is it for me, I should have left long ago, will leave the DMs open. A short final thread. . .

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

I'd urge you, turn off the social media, sit down with people in real life, the conversations are much better, and people are virtually always more reasonable. This whole social media experiment was worth running, seems pretty clear what the outcomes have been. Cheers.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

This website increasingly feels to me like Facebook did maybe a decade ago. An orgy of arguments, inflammatory everything, bots, and civilization destabilizers. This is it for me, I should have left long ago, will leave the DMs open. A short final thread. . .

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

But, microblogging is also just . . . worse that sitting down and writing something significant that doesn't have a nuance killing character limit.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@causalitybrunch @MayorOliviaChow @BradMBradford Its hard to have a conversation about something like this when you make assertions such as "Bikes and e-bikes and scooters are being pushed off roads for the sake of another corporate surveillance scheme?" for which there is no evidence.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

With Waymo coming to Toronto now is the moment to talk congestion pricing. With a digital service like this you can do it without any cameras and charge a nominal fee for people entering the downtown core at certain times of day.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@Michael56297223 I think you need to go back to school to learn what socialism is, and what the role of markets in a functioning economy is.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

Anyone who thinks Doug Ford would immediately shoot down congestion pricing aimed only at Waymos seems to be jumping way too fast to that conclusion. Doug cares an immense amount about urban car commuters, they will suddenly be getting stuck behind Waymo-congestion.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@Michael56297223 Ok numbers man.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

Quite funny seeing people decry Doug Fords lack of ability to see nuance, while yelling that he would never allow congestion pricing -- themselves missing the nuance that I suggested only Waymos pay it.

I repeat, congestion pricing ONLY for Waymos.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@Tim_Per21 @ElectionDigest He would what?

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

In our latest post, we talk about the compelling case for congestion pricing only on driverless vehicles, and other policy ideas as Waymo comes to Toronto. Read now:

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

To be clear, only for Waymos! Regular drivers wouldn't have to pay, as AVs become more and more of traffic a higher % of cars would be paying.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

That it is a small number of cars and fees is what makes it easy to get rolling. As this becomes more and more of traffic you get to avoid a bigger fight later, the congestion fee is there from the beginning.

If you think the name is a problem, come up with a dif one.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@BrisbaneFollow @ray_hoang30 How? They wouldn't pay anything? Did you read anything I wrote before all of this jibber-jabber?

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@melkuo @MattSpoke Lots of people already don't have cars, will only increase

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@reaverxai Exactly

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

@NickWilcox12 I could talk all day. But I'm not sure you'd be hearing what I was saying.

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Anyone who thinks that Doug Ford would out of hand say no to congestion pricing should consider that waymos are going to be very visibly taking up road space from people driving in from the burbs.