A Citybus driver on route 930 swerved on Des Voeux Road Central near Jubilee Street yesterday to avoid a five-year-old girl who'd stepped into the road. The bus clipped a tram. The tram came off the rails. Nobody got hurt, not the kid, not the passengers, not the driver. Just a tram on its side and a road full of people staring at it.

Here's the thing everyone's going to say: what a hero, that driver. And fine, he is. But look at where this happened. Des Voeux Road Central, tram tracks running down the middle, buses and cars squeezed on either side, pedestrians crossing wherever they can find a gap because the signals in that stretch are timed for nobody's actual life. This isn't bad luck. This is what that road does every single day, and today a five-year-old nearly paid for it, in front of everyone, on camera.