I'd seen some of Paige Saunders' videos as one-offs, but just realized recently that his videos are really intended to be watched as series, which isn't totally clear when you just spot one of them out of context (they're not labelled like "____ Series, X out of Y" or anything like that).
He's a New Zealand-born Canadian living in Montreal and is doing some really kickass explanatory journalism, recently centered around the housing crisis and transit politics all around Canada. Would really highly recommend checking out his videos, and in particular watching by playlist rather than just clicking a random video.
He's got a really fascinating tone where he often doesn't bother humoring the bad-faith NIMBY arguments and just skips straight to the solutions that all the experts agree we need to be focusing on.
One of his recent series I found super fascinating is about how a Quebecois public pension fund is becoming one of the most effective transit-building institutions in Canada. Essentially, municipal governments give this pension fund a perpetual cut of fare revenues* in exchange for them building a kickass system. This gives the transit project a great blend of public subsidy and real profit-incentive, because those fare revenues need to yield returns for the pensioners. So when some new city councilors get elected and want to throw a wrench in the new transit project, the project is being led by a powerful third-party institution that can pushback against bullshit that will delay the project or make it less effective. It's like all the benefits of a public-private partnership, except this pension fund is also a public institution that is beholden to the people... it's just a much more independent public institution that won't get battered around as easily by fickle swings back and forth in political coalitions as the project gets built.
It really seems like an ideal situation, and the beautiful thing is that by doing this in multiple cities, this pension fund is actually building up a ton of institutional knowledge about how to manage large-scale transit projects and get it done efficiently and effectively. Theoretically, a US city (or really a city in any other country) could also hire a big transit improvement project out to this fund, and they would likely manage the project better, faster, and cheaper than that city employees could. It's really a promising model for rebuilding institutional knowledge about public transit, after such knowledge has mostly been lost over the last couple generations.
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*I got this wrong and was just rewatching the video—the city just pays the fund a certain amount of subsidy, which is lower than the subsidy they would have paid into running this system if they had built it themself. Then the fund gets to keep all the fare revenue, so if ridership is low they lose money, and the higher the ridership, the more money they make for their pensioners.