Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 119

183.  

Eliminate snow clearing on sidewalks.  Cost too much money and boulevards are a mess after the winter.  Residents have to constantly repair grass

184.  

Cuts don't lead to savings, they lead to a deterioration of services that becomes very costly to repair down the road.

185.  

I think that it is a bit absurd that this survey suggests funding things like 24 hr police response, or feeding the homeless, with user fees -- but nowhere do I see the suggestion of user fees in the form of tolls for transportation services.

186.  

Reduce automobile traffic.

187.  

bike lanes

188.  

I am perfectly happy to pay more money for better services.  As long as we're not wasting money.  Streamlining construction so we're not ripping up 6 month old sidewalks to put in gas lines etc..  Efficiency in programs is something we could do better at.

189.  

Maintain or improve service but reduce cost by eliminating waste, inefficiencies, or poor management.  / In some cases "find a better way". e.g. don't pay a cop $68/hr to "stand" by construction sites. Have the contractor direct traffic if required. (Like a school crossing guard. /  / I disagree with the statement that it cost more every year to maintain the same level of service. There is always a cheaper, better way.   

190.  

Improve public transportation instead of expanding highways - make it better and cheaper and people will use it. It is ridiculously expensive and poorly connected (and old). Consider RFID tag cards for users (like TranSantiago in Santiago, Chile and many other cities who have a much better and more effective transportation service). Add safer bike lanes to encourage biking (and reduce traffic jams).

191.  

Road tolls on the DVP and Gardiner. / Sink the Gardiner and sell the real estate above with the new land created to pay for the project.

192.  

We need good quality services for marginalized and/or less affluent residents if we are to remain a world class city.  Also, please consider user fees for major roads coming into Toronto (i.e. tolls)

193.  

Toronto needs the services it provides so work to make all departments more efficient!   /  / The Bridlewood area of Scarborough has seen two years of city improvements on streets that were not in bad shape and only about 15 yrs old, not compared to the hunt club area or my area Queensbury Ave.  I have lived on the street 15 yrs without as much as a fix for the pothole created by a builder when adding a water line to the new house they built.  Why do some residential neighbourhoods  get preferential treatment , we pay our taxes but seem not to benefit for paying for them.  Snow removal is another sore point for me between the two neighbourhoods.  We on Queensbury have waited till the next snowfall before we see a plow where Bridlewood gets plowed as if it were a main street.  

194.  

I remember several years ago when for there were no tax increases.  That was a significant error.  No government or business can allow its revenues to be static when its costs are increasing.  There should always be small tax increases.   /  / If the city starts cutting costs and more importantly services, after a few years there will be no need to worry about competing with other cities, because very few will want to come here.  Good services are one of the things that make Toronto a valuable city. /  / Respectable middle-of-the-road management is what we desperately need.

195.  

I regard all services currently provided by the City as important. Your challenge is not to cut them but to find efficiencies where possible(without cutting the quality of the service),to find adjacent revenue sources to fund the services and take some of the burden off the property tax base. / With regard to user fees, I would only support user fees for things that I don't want .In my mind those would include higher fees for waste pickup, higher fees for water consumption and fees for reducing congestion(i.e. tolls, gas tax etc). / I would not support user fees for use of the city's community centres, libraries, swimming pools ,park facilities etc. These services should be free by subsidizing with other revenue sources.

196.  

Have all cyclists pay registration fee and have a license so traffic violations can be enforced

197.  

Please create dedicated bike lanes whenever/wherever possible. No street should be resurfaced without planning in a dedicated  bike lane. Making cycling a safe mode of transportation will encourage more people to leave their cars at home.

198.  

Consult credible international research before cancelling city programs - bike lanes are proven to be useful in many studies!!!

199.  

Tolls on highways

200.  

Keep important, key services such as Police, Fire, EMS and infrastructure and roads as priority, city run services.   

201.  

Get rid of the Parking Ticket department. This would save us lots of money.

202.  

Investing in building preservation, urban forestry, bike lanes, pedestrianization, water infrastructure and public transportation is a fiscally wise choice.

203.  

There's a discrepancy (and bad communication) over who consumes services and expensive infrastructure, and who pays for it. If I live and work downtown, my need for infrastructure (roads for me to get to work, for example), and the cost of delivering services like water and garbage collection is far less per household. And yet the suburban households which cost more to maintain, and which are generally more isolated from the urban experience, are agitating for cuts to taxes and services.  /  / People who put less of a burden on the city (those of us who live in areas of greater density) should be paying their fair share, as should those whose distant-from-thecore properties cost the city more. In the case of the suburbs, that means pay more taxes, and stop eroding the quality of downtown life.  /  / 

204.  

Road tolls