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Originally Posted by Drybrain
Yeah, streetcars are slow beasts. People who haven't experienced them tend to over-estimate how fast they get around, but they're all about capacity, not speed. During Toronto's rush hour, you can often easily out-walk the King and Queen streetcars over a distance of several kilometres, and I'm not exaggerating.
The St. Clair and Spadina lines are much faster, owing to ROWs and signal priority. Still local transit though, not rapid transit.
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I remember asking for directions once in downtown Toronto and someone pointed me in the right direction and mentioned, "If you wait here for 10 minutes you can just take the streetcar!"
The destination was about a 7 minute walk away...
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