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It’s been a bad week for Torontonians trying to get anywhere.

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The TTC is seriously miffed about Bombardier’s stunning inability to deliver our bought-and-paid-for streetcars — 10 of which are currently roaming the streets, instead of the 67 there ought to be. No, no, more than miffed. Miffed was in June, when chair Josh Colle flew off to Thunder Bay to find out in person just what the heck was going on. Recent labour strife, and parts manufactured in Mexico that didn’t fit together — a minor problem, surely — were fingered as the culprits. But Bombardier insisted that was all behind it. We would have 23 streetcars by the end of the year, the company vowed.

And four months later? LOL. No. We’ll have 16 streetcars by year’s end, Bombardier told the TTC last week. Probably. Just as soon as they iron out some “production issues with the crimping of electrical connectors.”

Well. Colle was angry. No, furious! “I am incredibly disappointed to learn that Bombardier, yet again, will not be meeting their commitments,” he thundered in a press release. “We will not let Bombardier’s incompetence hold our patient and loyal customers hostage. We will consider all legal and financial actions at our disposal to address this situation.”