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Apr 5, 2024 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
A reminder to the reader: at present, and for the past two years, I am posting at mountainrunner.substack.com. The blog you’re reading – mountainrunner.us – has largely been dormant since then, save the occasional cross-post here, like this one, to direct you to the substack page. This blog will be maintained indefinitely as it remains a resource for many and contains material cited in books and reports over nearly two decades.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
Knowing why is far more important than learning how
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
For timely updates on my writing, subscribe to my substack "Arming for the War We're In". Most posts there will eventually get copied here, but "most" and "eventually"...
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
spacing.ca | Tricia Wood |Matt Armstrong |Megan Kinch |John Lorinc
In the fall of 2022, I spent three months studying public transportation in Spain, mainly the metro in Madrid. I came away extremely impressed by the technical aspects, and also by the way in which Spanish cities build good public space in and through their transportation systems. Toronto and Madrid are similarly sized cities both in land area and in population, and there is a lot Toronto could learn about strengthening public transportation from the Spanish capital.
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May 11, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
The issue is not that the US forgot how to “tell its story to the world,” but whySince mid-2022, my primary outlet has been mountainrunner.substack.com. The mountainrunner.us site will continue to exist, and I will occasionally repost articles from my substack here. However, these reposts, like the one you are about to read, will be neither timely nor include all of my substack work.
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May 10, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
Notes & details behind my 8-minute presentationSince mid-2022, my primary outlet has been mountainrunner.substack.com. The mountainrunner.us site will continue to exist, and I will occasionally repost articles from my substack here. However, these reposts, like the one you are about to read, will be neither timely nor include all of my substack work. In other words, if you want to follow my writing, I suggest you subscribe to my substack where this post first appeared on 24 April 2023.
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May 9, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
Come for the panel, stay for the carpet bombing of SmurfsSince mid-2022, my primary outlet has been mountainrunner.substack.com. The mountainrunner.us site will continue to exist, and I will occasionally repost articles from my substack here. However, these reposts, like the one you are about to read, will be neither timely nor include all of my substack work. In other words, if you want to follow my writing, I suggest you subscribe to my substack where this post first appeared on 14 March 2023.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
This post appeared at mountainrunner.substack.com on 22 February 2023. It has been slightly modified here for clarity. Subscribe to my free substack for new posts through email, the web, or through the substack app. Posts are copied here when I get around to it. The misinformation around the Smith-Mundt Act now borders on willful disinformation. It is really quite fantastic.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
mountainrunner.us | Matt Armstrong
This post first appeared at mountainrunner.substack.com on 7 February 2023. It has been modified slightly for clarity. Subscribe to my free substack for new posts through email, the web, or through the substack app. Posts are copied here when I get around to it. However, in the case of this post, it originated here at the MountainRunner blog in September 2018 before going to the substack, so now it has returned in a revised form.
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Mar 6, 2023 | 
spacing.ca | Matt Armstrong
It was summer 2021, and I was eager to get away and mentally escape the pandemic. Some wilderness would be nice, forest bathing in cottage country, perhaps some swimming and hiking. In previous years I had rented a car for such a journey, but in summer 2021 car rentals were wildly expensive or unavailable. Should expensive or unavailable rental cars be an issue? Not really. Rural Ontario is beautiful and it should not only be possible to visit by transit, but normal to do so. But is it?
