Lone Primate
Active Member
Why would there be "parked cars" on a thoroughfare major enough to sport a bus route? Oh yes, of course, because it's Toronto... how silly of me. Only backward places facilitate traffic flow by insisting car parking be confined to side streets. God forbid people should have to walk two or three minutes to reach a shop when they could just park in front of it and contribute to traffic congestion and smog, the marks of truly progressive cities like ours. Surely life in Leaside, for instance, would come to an end if you could drive down Bayview from Eglinton to the Extension in three minutes instead of ten, and yuppies and their spawn had to cross at signals instead of just charging out from between parked cars like it was just another pedestrian mall like Sparks Street in Ottawa.
My little ax to grind notwithstanding, I think there's little doubt that a bus, even in the worst of circumstances, has more options in terms of maneuverability than a streetcar. Given a couple of minutes and at least one driver who's enough of a mensch to make a space, a bus can get around a stalled car. Good luck with that if it's stalled on the tracks, or is part of a mid-intersection collision.
