It must surely be the case that secretly the general manager of the TTC Andy Byford harbours a bitter resentment of Toronto’s ill-fated decision to become Streetcar City back in the 1970s. The use of this 19th century form of transportation has been the source of endless mistakes, delays and cost. Canadian streetcars that are built out of alignment, track work shutting down important commercial streets for weeks, grinding down miles of concrete right-of-way on St. Clair Ave to make the streetcars fit. Now it is revealed the Leslie Street track contractor, Pomerleau, has built the Leslie Street car tracks four inches too high. They will be torn up and opening of the street delayed two months.
