Holyday wants to know what it would mean if signal priority gave LRTs priority over left-turning vehicles. "Have you ever played Uno?" Holyday asks. "You ever get a miss-your-turn card? Is that what this is?"

Staff say left-turning cars would still get a turn, after the transit has cleared.

Mayor Olivia Chow describes her experience riding the Finch West LRT twice on opening day.

"It was smooth. It was comfortable. It was quite quiet. And the riders that were packed on the first ride were just very excited. Yes, it is a bit too slow. That is why we are here working to speed it up."

Holyday asks Chow what she'll do if "tinkering with the lights" to offer transit signal priority creates "public backlash"?

"I wouldn't call giving public transit that holds hundreds of people 'tinkering'," says Chow. "There's no reason that 3-4 cars making left-turns should have priority."

"No more left-hand turns, is that the message? When you travel, make right-hand-turn circles? Because that's what this implicates. It will stack up cars trying to make a left," Holyday wonders.

Chow says she heard those arguments when Spadina got its right-of-way in the 90s. Drivers will adapt.

Councillor Jon Burnside asks if Chow would consider congestion pricing like other cities worldwide.

"It's not up to us," says Chow."Why go down that road because the premier and the provincial government have said many times, 'Don't even think about it!'"

Burnside presses Chow on the congestion pricing question, noting if she gets re-elected she might "outlive" the current provincial government.

"I don't speculate," Chow says of a congestion price. She's focused instead on things like dealing with illegal construction closures.

With that, Council takes lunch. They'll return at 2 p.m.

Rough schedule for the rest of today:

1) Faster Finch
2) Max indoor temperature bylaw

Tomorrow:

1) Luxury land transfer tax hike
2) TransformTO climate change plan
3) Rooming house bylaw update

There are 80 items left on the agenda.

Back to the Faster Finch debate. Councillor Holyday says Council shouldn't rush into changes with a transit line that just opened.

"The one thing in this world that you cannot manufacture is time," he says, worrying that giving the LRT priority will slow down other traffic and create backlash.