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Toronto: Let's Talk About the Streetcars.

Theres a subway-worth of capacity just sitting here. Can we finally fix them, please?

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Reece
Apr 03, 2025
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The streetcars are a silly thing. People have a vague affection for them that mostly goes out the window once they have to ride them. They are generally-speaking slow, unreliable, and treated like an inconvenience to the TTC more than a special superpower.

This, along with getting a new CEO for Toronto’s transit agency that doesn’t suggest that things ar…

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