This weekend, Toronto is opening a new light rail line that is late, over budget and years in the making. It’s not the one you’re thinking about.

The Finch West light rail line opens on Dec. 7, and for riders of the Finch West bus — one of North America’s busiest — the new streetcars will offer a quieter, smoother and more comfortable ride between Finch West station and Humber College. But despite years of waiting, some Torontonians will likely also feel let down.

It’s not that there isn’t reason for optimism. Consider: the Finch West LRT and Eglinton LRT were proposed, funding was secured, governments changed, and yet these major projects, costing the better part of $20 billion between them, are nearly complete. Much has been made of the delays, but few projects in this part of the worl

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