{"id":2703,"date":"2008-01-25T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:26:39","slug":"streetcars-vs-cars-december-16th-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/25\/streetcars-vs-cars-december-16th-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Streetcars vs. Cars: December 16th blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DTkcdLF1GPs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Last month&#8217;s terriblewonderful Sunday blizzard threw the city into either a winter wonderland or chaotic mess, depending on your perspective. In our <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2583\">snow storm stories thread<\/a>, some readers reported that one of the reasons the streetcar system was bogged down was due to motorists parking their cars and blocking the streetcar tracks. One commenter even said people on his streetcar got out and physically moved cars out of the way. In the video above Spacing writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vforvandal\">Jessica Duffin Wolfe<\/a> caught two minutes of a streetcar making its way down College. The driver has to get out and eye cars and snowdrifts &#8220;<span>like a renaissance surveyor&#8221; says Wolfe. Streetcars are backed up in the opposite direction because of parked cars. Apart from perhaps wishing we had a nice snowfall again, this video may support a campaign to outfit TTC vehicles with rams that could take out offending and city-crippling parked cars in short order.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DTkcdLF1GPs[\/youtube] Last month&#8217;s terriblewonderful Sunday blizzard threw the city into either a winter wonderland or chaotic mess, depending on your perspective. 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