Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 46

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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Parking authority is out of control. This has nothing to do with parking and everything to do with legally looting people. If it were a service ( govt is supposed to serve the people) then a friendly reminder of an infraction would be a service, not a ticket  Of course it is rationalized, justified and explained away as adding finances to the city coffers. I'm my area the streets are worked by pairs of infraction officers practically running from car to car, at other times they stalk the sidestreets for cars parked on the wrong side of the street because you can only park half the month on one side and half the month on the other. I find them disgusting, doing the bidding of some big shot at city hall. In a city of this size there are only 4 locations you can take a ticket to dispute it, what a crock . Legalized theft, nothing but.

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Our roads are in bad shape. We should try and fix them once and for all, instead of just patching them up.

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bike lanes and better integration of bicycle and automobile infrastructures, never hosting the G20 ever again

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Fair use of tax dollars across the city.  Suburbs of the city that get free snow removal (as a left-over from pre-amalgamation days) is not fair.  Either the entire city gets free snow removal, or no one does.  

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homeless and sickness people, elder care, single family, lower income family, traffic, affordable housing, health care and education system

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Reducing the police budget and improving social services and providing more jobs for youth, especially students and at-risk youth. Any professor of criminology will tell you more police officers does not equal less crime. Policing is 90% reactive and 10% proactive. With the average income of most officers at 80k, we could instead fund numerous jobs for youth who need the jobs to stay out of trouble and avoid drugs/gangs. /  / Also we need more bike lanes and to reduce the amount of traffic in the city. Discourage people from driving to the city by increasing parking spaces near the ends of subway lines (i.e. Kipling and Islington)

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Keeping bike lanes

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road tolls, other forms of traffic control into the core area

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1. Addressing Infrastructure & Transportation issue should include increased recognition of cars and pedestrians, i.e. re-open Jarvis car lanes & create bicycle lanes

on secondary roads as well as direct public transportation from Downtown to Airport. .  / 2. Meeting needs of vulnerable people should be a top priority but definition of vulnerable people should not include vagrants and panhandlers. The City should reintroduce and enforce vagrancy laws to the benefit of tourists and residents.. / 3. Littering is becoming an increasing issue in the city. The city should introduce a no littering bylaw and enforce it thus creating a revenue generating stream while reducing maintenance costs and making the city more attractive to tourists and more livable to residents.

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bike lanes / improving public transportation

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Bike lanes. This will make everything better.