I know this is just my own little bone to pick, but the Fords' blathering about St. Clair drives me nuts. Again, just like every Thursday, I turned left onto St. Clair at Mt. Pleasant. The light at the end of the bridge and the light at the street car loop were conveniently green, so I ended up stopped at Yonge w/ about five-six cars at the same time as the streetcar arrived. The left-hand turning cars cleared, heading north on Yonge, the streetcar and my light turned green, and the streetcar proceeded to stop and pick up 3-4 passengers at Yonge. I made the light at Deer Park, but missed the light at Avenue Road. The streetcar, having picked up passengers twice in-between, pulled up beside me as we waited for the LH turning cars again, then the streetcar proceeded to the Avenue Road stop and I proceeded to turn right into Forest Hill on my way to UCC.
The point(s) of all this? 1. Total travel time for me, MP to FH -- 5 minutes because of two lights. Total travel time for the streetcar -- 5 minutes, despite picking up passengers. Both times are more than acceptable. 2. The only thing that slowed me down the whole time was an aggressive driver who felt it necessary to gun through the right-hand lane at Deer Park and I had to jam the brakes as he swerved into my lane to miss a parked car. Once again, it is the car drivers that are the problem, not the streetcars.