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TheNational Posttoday launches a week-long look at Toronto’s troubled streetcars.

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Deborah Belgrove cheered me up: Bonding with a fellow sufferer beats suffering alone.

I met the administrative assistant in surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital near the end of my Monday morning horror ride on the 501 Queen streetcar.

Having dropped my son at camp in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, I walked east five blocks before a streetcar finally rumbled up.

It was bursting with riders like a tap-tap in Port-au-Prince. I squeezed in the rear door.

A guy had wedged his bike half in the door and half in the aisle, blocking passengers. No one said a word. Most windows were shut. The streetcar stank like a hockey-rink dressing room.

I pulled open a window near me. The man sitting by it pulled it shut.