Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 56

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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More bike lanes; initiate pedestrian only zones; start to think about a road congestion tax on vehicles driving into the downtown core; maintain decent wages for employees and end wage suppression, the 'race to the bottom' that occurs with privatization; and avoid the short term solution of selling off irreplaceable public assets to keep taxes low for only a year or so.  

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People in charge need a long range vision for the city to make it a beautiful, inviting, liveable city not just a hodgepodge of buildings all over the place with no thought as to how people as suppose to get around and enjoy space. For example, the beautiful new AGO cannot be fully appreciated because there is no forecourt, no space to stand back and look at the architecture. Same with the new opera house, The Four Seasons for the Performing Arts and the Rogers Centre. The downtown around the Gardiner is such a mess of condos it is in a perpetual gridlock. 

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Bike lanes, cutting police spending

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Waterfront redevelopment. / Closing the Island airport. / Building more bike lanes; reducing traffic.

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Traffic, mental health

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You've grouped vastly differing issues into sole-focus  categories: I feel that culture is very important, but much less so sport; likewise I feel that pedestrian and cycling issues are very separate from roads and water, although they aren't even mentioned in the category. The most important issue facing the city I feel is the use of public space, and how that is defined. It must be viewed by the city and its politicians as a negotiated space, not a legislated or prescribed space for cars and goods transport. 

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reducing the cost of police. They should not be our number one expenditure. Privatize traffic police. Put up Road tolls. Tax individuals who do not live in Toronto.

448.     

driver education re. traffic flow

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Sustainable recycling programs, affordable public transportation, traffic congestion.  /  / I consider multiple sports franchise investments unnecessary for the city given our current inability to effectively manage our existing population and tourism. 

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Please ban bicycle rides during rush hours, they are putting everyone in danger. Also, please remove the street cars, they are blocking two lanes every time they stop, they slow traffic and causing hundreds of car to pollute the air.  / Maybe electric buses like San-Francisco would be a good solution. /  / In addition,  I see too many police cars with speed traps trying to generate money instead of patrolling and keeping the City safe. 

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1)  get rid of bike lanes

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I believe handling TCHC in the right way = single dwelling homes being sold for capital repair. Better policing of TCHC and security so TCHC can deal with wrong tenants quickly so families can look after themselves without fear

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as one of the leading cities in Canada we need to take an active role in environmental issues. Climate change will cost us billions soon if we don't address it now and try to hold emissions down. Cities can make a huge difference through things like bike lanes and fees for cars.