Squealing streetcars on Cherry St. “torture” to local man

The recently installed 514 Cherry Street line is noisy nuisance to at least one resident of the area who took his grievance to the CBC’s Shannon Martin. “It’s become a form a torture for us,” gripes Jason Mednick. He recorded the cars turning at King Street East and Sumach Street (above) to animate his complaint. He calls it an equivalent to waterboarding. Yikes. Ms Martin reports that the  514 went into service in June. Ordinary people ask why it was necessary to build another street car line (for Heaven’s sake) but that may be another matter. Listen to the video and see if this screeching is more or less what one might expect, if you live next to a streetcar line.