Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 31

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

89.       

We need more bike lanes. I was hit by a car last week while following the rules of the road, on a road with no bike lanes. We need more services for refugees and new immigrants in the city. It is disgraceful how services are being cut for those who are already the most vulnerable in the city. We also need more shelter beds, and a safe injection site. 

90.       

Cut the budget to the Toronto Police, and also rethink what kind of policing we want in our streets?  Not like the G20 type of policing, but more community watch policing.  For suggestions on how we can save taxpayers' dollars implement the following suggestions to stop the continual cycle of waste, bloated budgets, and Toronto Police Officers getting massive overtime pay.  Ways to do this:   First, stop the scam of getting 4 hours pay for showing up for a court traffic ticket.  Secondly, stop assigning so many Police Officers to peaceful demonstrations.  Thirdly, redesign the work scheduling system for Toronto Police so that they don't have an automatic built-in system of overtime.  The current scheduling system results in gross inefficiencies, long hours and days followed by many days off shift - this is just plain wrong.

91.       

Safe and extensive BIKE LANES

92.       

Improving public transportation, reduce the number of cars on the road, improve traffic flow.

93.       

Traffic

94.       

Bike lanes, Arts funding, Participatory government,  Fort York bridge.  Communities with various income levels.

95.       

improving the state of roads for all users, cars, bikes and pedestrians

96.       

Congestion

97.       

Shabby public realm - overhead hydro wires on wooden poles, utility cuts everywhere destroying street and sidewalk pavement, pedestrian-unfriendly sidewalks.  This isn't a matter of the City spending more - it's a matter of properly coordinating utility construction, making utilities bear the true cost of repairing their mess, directing condo development fees to public infrastructure, creating some minimal design standards reflecting an urban environment, and making one person at City Hall responsible for street and sidewalk design, reconstruction, repair and maintenance.   I mean, who decided frontier-town wooden hydro poles supporting a jumbled mess of overhead wires, with garbage can-sized transformers suspended in midair, were acceptable for the main streets of a city?  Why do no other cities in North America, Europe or Australia look like this?

98.       

I would like to see more safe, dedicated bike lanes throughout the city, expansion of the BIXI program and less catering to the car. / As well, I want to see the continuation of the waterfront development as laid out by Waterfront Toronto and the many stakeholder groups who participated in the planning.

99.       

More bicycle lanes. Reinstating vehicle registration tax. Congestion pricing.