TTC chair Adam Giambrone is not overly concerned about safety after the second streetcar accident in 10 days, calling them “very minor, fender bender-type affairs” — and he says riders shouldn’t be worried either.
“Unfortunately these things happen from time to time,” Giambrone said yesterday. “We’ve had two back to back … So far we haven’t seen any discernable pattern.”
Four people were taken to hospital on Saturday after a westbound streetcar stopped on The Queensway at Colborne Lodge Drive, was rear-ended by another streetcar at around 6 p.m.
On June 11, two streetcars collided at Bay and Dundas streets shortly before 6 a.m., sending seven people — including a TTC driver — to hospital.
“All these cases usually come down to driver error,” said Giambrone. Infrastructure is not to blame, he added.
