A Leslieville resident is on a mission to find out whether he can outrun Toronto’s streetcars.

So far, he’s seven-for-seven in beating transit along multiple city routes.

“I’ve won all of them and I think I’ve won all of them by quite a margin,” said Mac Bauer.

The runner, who is posting his weekly challenges of ‘Man vs. Machine’ to his Instagram account , first came up with the idea for this challenge during an especially long streetcar ride home.

Keeping record of his race times while running the full routes of the chosen streetcar, he’s won by as long as 25 minutes — even taking a snack break at a Tim Horton’s while outrunning one.

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Bauer hopes he can highlight the need for better infrastructure to improve trans

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