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So in 1990-ish they spent a ton of money replacing the busses that run up and down Spadina Avenue with...Streetcars. So they screwed up traffic for years while installing the tracks, stations, etc. Then they discovered -- shock -- no one makes new streetcars anymore!
So they made a crown corporation (government owned corp) specifically to design and manufacture these streetcars. Huzzah!
So eventually these awful streetcars get installed. And now performance is worse than busses...if one streetcar encounters problems, you can't pass it! This happened earlier this week, backed up dozens of streetcars in a row pissing thousands of people off...
Another thing is they can't pass eachother when picking people up at the station. They usually come in bunches of 3-4 at rushhour, so the one at the front can load and the others queue behind. Instead of the empty streetcars behind skipping the stop and picking up the crowd at the next station, the car at the front still is in the front and tries to load up as many as possible. As such the front car is always VERY packed and the last car is deserted...
Anyway, this got even more stupid. They want 200 new streetcars with modern stuff like, you know, air conditioning. The pricetag? $1.5B for 200. $7.5 million dollars each for a frickin STREETCAR.
WOW.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH BUSSES?
So they made a crown corporation (government owned corp) specifically to design and manufacture these streetcars. Huzzah!
So eventually these awful streetcars get installed. And now performance is worse than busses...if one streetcar encounters problems, you can't pass it! This happened earlier this week, backed up dozens of streetcars in a row pissing thousands of people off...
Another thing is they can't pass eachother when picking people up at the station. They usually come in bunches of 3-4 at rushhour, so the one at the front can load and the others queue behind. Instead of the empty streetcars behind skipping the stop and picking up the crowd at the next station, the car at the front still is in the front and tries to load up as many as possible. As such the front car is always VERY packed and the last car is deserted...
Anyway, this got even more stupid. They want 200 new streetcars with modern stuff like, you know, air conditioning. The pricetag? $1.5B for 200. $7.5 million dollars each for a frickin STREETCAR.
WOW.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH BUSSES?
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