What is the social agenda that Toronto city planners are pushing in your example? It sounds like they addressing the same problem the private transit route is a

What is the social agenda that Toronto city planners are pushing in your example? It sounds like they addressing the same problem the private transit route is addressing, more slowly but more durably and more accessibly by bringing new streetcars into service, albeit with delays: http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/15/more-delays-in-streetcar-delivery-mayor-john-tory http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/15/more-delays-in-streetca... Which speaks to the strengths and weaknesses of government versus private approaches to problem-solving. Many cities have and many more cities have had privately-operated transit services— they often have strengths (responsiveness to customer demand for popular routes, technological innovations) and weaknesses (competition for ridership leading to traffic problems or wasted effort, disincentives to run services as a network, higher prices). Incidentally, Jarrett Walker speaks extensively about the tradeoffs between different (legitimate) policies that transit planners face when setting up systems: http://humantransit.org/2015/07/mega-explainer-the-ridership-recipe.html http://humantransit.org/2015/07/mega-explainer-the-ridership...