Vehicles can move around streetcars, they just can't pass when loading and unloading of passengers - not to mention ROW lines on St. Clair & Queens Quay that don't affect traffic flow at all and in a perfect world would be the standard for all streetcar routes. In my experience by far the worst street for traffic congestion is the 501 route, time for a subway/LRT under Queen Street but again, we're not going to see that anytime soon.
Immediate victims of the Fords in the next year will be all but the upper income earners yet some potential cuts will even affect them but then they've got the money to take the kids on a day trip to the African Lion Safari as opposed to Riverdale Farm. It looks like the homeless, lower income earners, the arts and cultural events will get hammered the hardest.