On St. Clair today at Spadina 7 streetcars went by eastbound before one came along westbound. The one that finally showed up had just entered service off of Bathurst, if not for it, it would have been 9 streetcars in the other direction before one came along for me. The irony of the situation is that when I arrived at the stop, there was a lady reading the posted schedule to which I remarked... "Enjoy reading fiction?".
The St. Clair streetcar service is currently running a route that is 2/3rds on a ROW. PLUS the length of the route is only half what it normally is (with only buses west of Oakwood). PLUS the problem in the past of streetcars at St. Clair West station of both directions using one track is moot as that station is closed. But yet there are still 25-30 minute gaps in service and streetcars running bumper-to-bumper westbound at Avenue Road, two stops from the start of the route. What does this mean for when streetcars return to the full length of the route? It's absurd that when travelling from St. Clair West it's quicker to ride the YUS loop to College station than catch a streetcar over to Yonge and down the subway simply due to unreliability, but this has been the case each time I have tried it.
I'm someone who volunteered his time to go door-to-door on the streets north and south of St. Clair extolling and debating the merits of the ROW, gathering signatures, and sustaining verbal abuse. But now with the ROW in partial service I can't help but feel jilted and abandoned by the TTC.