It’s midday on a Monday, far from rush hour, but the point where Spadina Avenue and Front Street meet is already a traffic-clogged mess — cars heading south, eager to get on the Gardiner Expressway are backed up on the bridge over the train tracks, spilling into the intersection.
The light changes, but those trying to make it through on Front are blocked. Those turning south from Front join the pileup: trucks, cars, work vans, even a cement mixer stop in the middle of the street, blocking the Spadina streetcar lane. In vain, a streetcar pulls halfway across the intersection and halts, stranded in the fray, cutting off the pedestrian crossing.
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