Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 30

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

72.       

I do not believe in the privatization of any of our  services.  We've seen it before province - wide : privatization leads to extra money in corporations pockets, not in the hands of the people who do the work (which it should -- as they, in turn, spend to keep our economy going).  People deserver good jobs with benefits and decent pay.  They, in turn, contribute to keep a city thriving. By keeping services public we ensure the necessary checks and balances are kept in place.  We also need to look at the safety of cycling for residents.  I'm a 50 year old who wants to be able to cycle around my own city safely -- yet we seem to have a culture of thinking we're targets and nuisances.  When I ride my bike, I'm contributing to a cleaner Toronto, and I end up visiting merchants and events in the city that I never would if I had to drive and try to find parking.

73.       

Better bike lanes, fixing pot holes, better social programs for youth

74.       

Insufficient conservation of green space and tree planting. Aging electrical and water/sewage infrastructure. Lack of a bold vision for the city including pollution mitigation and environmental issues. The need for more open public spaces and pedestrian only roads. A major waterfront corniche/promenade. And finally the removal of the Gardiner expressway! 

75.       

when looking to use somebody's services start in Toronto, then Ontario and then Canada. example - this website : designed and managed in USA. you should use Toronto's company for that as well. Important to make available full city's spending online ( how much what costs: example repair of one asphalt hole costs 5$), so more people can look at it and suggest where can be cut. Cut salaries of city workers, if any money going to former workers, cut it as well. regular people do not have this privileges.

76.       

I love our city, why is it car-centric though? With the rising price of gas, would an increase in bike lanes be an affordable idea?

77.       

Transportation- need lanes for bicycle use only (too dangerous to bike with kids on roads with cars even with bike lane). Also consider making some roads one way such as Bloor Street to ease congestion (at Yonge and Bloor...traffic very congested especially westbound) / Pest control - too many houses have bed bugs, cockroaches, termites, etc. Need protection not only for tenants but new homeowners too.  / Education - more Waldorf-inspired public schools or incorporated into current TDSB education model; need to fund school building improvements

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

78.       

If you want to stop a gravy train and drain on resources know how many people living in the massive public housing portfolio abuse and take for granted the system.  your going to spend millions on mould and bedbugs when in most cases it won't help as there is Zero, Zilch, help, cooperation, effort, or responsibility expected or obtained from the occupant, how most like pays little rent, scams the system and has half a world of people living there not on the lease.  /  / at least check the cars in some of the parking lots in the morning.  pretty sure if you have acuras, sport suv's might want to think twice about supplying all that persons and their  water, heat and electricity.   /  / Old fashioned house keeping will go miles in resolving pest and mould issues. more so then new windows, transfers with no expectation on the occupant to do anything but say, try to sue us for it.

79.       

The city doesn't have a spending problem; it has a REVENUE problem. Property taxes should go UP. (We're actually undertaxed compared to surrounding municipalities.) The land transfer tax should stay in place. We will need a lot of money in the coming years to pay for desperately-needed repairs and upgrades to our aging infrastructure (water mains, sewers, sidewalks, roads, etc.), and cutting taxes is NOT going to help with that. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "I like paying taxes. With them, I buy civilization." Please consider this. And I am NOT a bike-riding left-wing pinko. I am an Etobicoke homeowner.

80.       

bike lanes

81.       

Foot traffic and public transportation/cycling access is good for business, the economy, and the environment. Creating adequate cycling paths would allow those that want to ride bikes safely to and from work and leisure to do so, freeing up roads for drivers that don't have that option, and opening up room for parking. The air would be cleaner, the streets quieter, there would be more foot traffic for local businesses, and it would discourage the development of a city with core decay, where people drive through downtown without stopping to get to their homes in the suburbs, which is a very real threat that many major cities succumb to. Spending tons of money on a subway to nowhere that wouldn't hold as many people as trains and buses (that had already been approved and budgeted for) is a waste, and doesn't keep people above ground, interacting with the city and its businesses.

82.       

A network of separated bike lanes should be implemented.

83.       

Installation of bike lanes will improve the city and its citizens in so many ways it is hard to start writing and not stop.

84.       

lack of highway - the amount of traffic congestion needs to be alleviated somehow / also, security throughout the city 

85.       

Road tax/congestion charge / Parking scheme to prevent driving into the core / Expansion of subway system

86.       

More bike lanes, solid waste/environment

87.       

Privatization of public assets, expansion of BIXI services, development of new and existing bike lanes (including segregated lanes).

88.       

Keeping library funding, increasing bike lanes