Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 113

104.  

many picturesque fountains are out of commission. There are two in the beaches that are shut off and decaying. please repair and maintain fountains. they look especially awful if they are abandoned. many drinking fountains are also broken. can't a sturdy design be found?

105.  

Use communications to encourage cycling. Less road damage, less pollution. Longterm thinking means looking at more sustainable, eco-friendly, and cheaper ways of living. If more people cycled and scootered, there would be a lot less congestion downtown. The city should put more effort into new age living styles. Europe figured it out a long time ago and we should have followed suit a lot earlier. /  / The City doesn't need to contract out, they just need to hire better, more motivated individuals. Government workers are known to be slackers/lazy because people sit on the same job for years. Working with staff and promoting their development will reduce stagnant, unmotivated staff. Invest in your workforce. And have more people on contracts and non-unionized to keep them on their toes.

106.  

Do more public consultation before going ahead with service cuts. Try to avoid any or all service cuts through finding other revenue sources, such as road tolls.

107.  

Have some concerns about making financial decisions (including cuts) based on this survey. There were many times I would have liked to rank 2 items equally (for example: the clearing of snow from city roads and maintaining street signs) but that was not an option. Many of the options listed are NOT mutually exclusive but they are treated as such in the survey.

108.  

Do don't feel that cutting services is the only way to repair the budget. Increase your revenue sources, be transparent and positive, and people will support you.

109.  

Bike lanes please!

110.  

Funding for cultural festivals is important.  Support diversity.  Support LGBTQ communities.  Support artists. / Help the poor and the homeless.  / Build more bike lanes!

111.  

one must balance improvements with cost cutting-they are not mutually exclusive because spending some money now could lead to decreased costs for the long term / equality of services  some residents get their sidewalks cleared--others do not.  / downloading services to the residents where possible e.g. if all residents can't have their sidewalks cleared, the city could decide to stop clearing sidewalks thus downloading that job to the residents (a job that originally wasn't the city's anyway)

112.  

Eliminate parking on curbs/side walks in the downtown core or significantly increase rental fees of these parking spaces.  Reintroduce car tax at a lower rate.

113.  

Road tolls would help our city balance the budget and reduce pollution and traffic. 

114.  

Have staff take a look at full cost recovery, environmental costing and subsides in all services -- especially motorists who create unsafe streets, foul the air, drive up policing costs.  Make them pay full cost through road pricing and parking fees.