If you’ve ever tumbled down a YouTube rabbit hole about public transportation, chances are you’ve come across Reece Martin — the sharp, relentless mind behind RMTransit. With over 1,000 videos filmed across dozens of cities, Reece has quietly become one of the most insightful, entertaining, and occasionally exasperated voices in the transit world.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why North America — and Toronto in particular — keeps getting transit so wrong
• The difference between places that treat transit like infrastructure vs. places that treat it like an expensive hobby
• How insecure leadership stops smart people from fixing obvious problems
• Why signage, governance, and shelters are more broken than you think
• What we can learn from Singapore, Germany, and even the SkyTrain in Vancouver
• The ...