Mac Bauer and his wife were heading home from a friend's house in Toronto one day when they had an all-too-familiar experience.

The streetcar they were on was chugging along at a snail's pace, and the 12-kilometre journey took well over an hour.

"My wife and I are pretty active people and like to run," Bauer told guest host Rebecca Zandbergen. "We just both looked at each other and went: 'We could outrun this, no problem.'"

Turns out, they were right. Bauer has now raced five Toronto streetcars, on foot, and beat them all — usually by a sizeable margin.

He says his victories, which he's documented on Instagram , are emblematic of the fact that the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) isn't keeping apace with growth in the city, where public transportation often finds itself pitted agai

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