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The setup for streetcars in Toronto is unusually bad. Many anti-public-transit people in local politics are conditioned to believe things that are only true of our system. It's poorly designed and operated even by North American standards. (The line 6 LRT apparently has many of the same problems; I haven't gotten to try it out.)

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>The setup for streetcars in Toronto is unusually bad.

How come? I love the streetcar.

If you're talking about having to stop when it stops, well ... just do it or go to jail.

No transit signal priority and usually not even right of way, comically outdated equipment (including switches and the actual attachments to the power line), awkwardly unlevel crossing, accessibility ramps that take excruciatingly long to deploy, poorly designed stops, poorly positioned stops, I could probably go on.

> If you're talking about having to stop when it stops

The opposite (I don't drive). I'm talking about it having to stop because of cars stopping.

Archaic single point switches, slow service, no transit priority, poor station quality, poor station spacing. It's a long list.

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