Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 65

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

cars is the right thing to do for them to live in this expensive city

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Manage expenses and stop asking for more tax and user fees.  Why did the police get another increase when the City is running a huge deficit?  Why does the City pay $65 an hour for off duty police to stand at a road construction site?  Why are salary increases of any type being offering with a deficit and talk of increasing taxes and user fees?  How about salary and benefit roll backs? How about managing our costs?  Sounds like more of the same.  Why are City employees driving large vehicles which aren't fuel efficient?  

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User fees for automobiles' use of roads may make sense in the core, since so many drivers in the city are not from Toronto.

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Tax automobile owners/drivers far more heavily and establish congestion-based road tolls.

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Tolls on highways to enter the city from 905 weekdays.  Toronto residents should not foot the entire bill for road maintenance from workers commuting and earning a living in our city.

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Get more money from the federal government instead of increasing property tax or user fees. Toronto residents are already paying a lot of property tax and user fees. The road conditions are terrible! There has been no improvement in any of these city services for such a long time. The only way to make Toronto a better city is to get more money from the Federal Government! Period!

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Obviously the city has a lot of responsibilities to make everything work. The last thing we need is to mindless cost-cutting ahead of all other considerations, because it will only come back to haunt us in the future and we will end up paying more in the end for the same thing (example: doing a shoddy job on road repairs means that you have to go back a few years later and do it again, better to do it right the first time).

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Land transfer tax; Tax on car purchase; tolls on major roads; tax/license on bicycles

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I think you should bring back the vehicle registration tax, and increase it, as people who drive cost the city a lot in terms of their impact on the roads, traffic congestion, and the environment.   / I think people and corporations should be taxed for activities that pollute or deplete the city.

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progressive solutions - i.e. vehicle registration tax perhaps? highway tolls for people coming into the city of toronto? finding non-existent gravy?

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The City should use its new taxation powers granted in the City of Toronto Act so that it does not have to rely so heavily on property taxes. It might also consider selling off parking lots on valuable land. In addition, the city should encourage intensification of land use to improve the efficiency of service delivery.

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Kill tax "cuts". All they do is bankrupt a city. Make sure that taxes are distributed equitably. For example, car drivers receive massive subsidies in terms of road repair and subway building (subways, especially along Eglinton east are a subsidy). These funds come from all Torontonians yet end up reducing the taxes only for car drivers! (I should know... I see all my income taxes go right out the door and not provide me with ONE iota of service).