Don’t suppose the SRT could be extended by adding a diesel carriage to the trainsets to pull them so the current SRT cars wouldn’t have to do any work other than opening and closing doors.
Perhaps Metrolinx could adopt this alliance model for LRTs.
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/light-rail/tampere-light-rail-network-opens-under-budget-and-ahead-of-schedule/