Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 78

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

London congestion charge.   / Find a way to collect and manage the 5 cent plastic bag fee.

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raise new fair taxes e.g. on road usage (cars and trucks)...infrastructure costs are high!

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Tolls and road pricing, transfer of income tax points from senior levels of government

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Higher corporate taxes / road tax for inner city vehicles / Higher taxation on largescale real estate development/condos / reduce infrastructure and affordable housing costs by making them requirements to large-scale building permits / reduce police expenditure / privatize LCBO (I know this is provincial, but maybe in the GTA?) / 

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cut the staff salaries, lay off part of staff, contract out union jobs, introduce the tolls on DVP and Gardiner

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I think the car tax should be re-instated; in my opinion it was a short-sighted grab for votes that will cost the city money that could otherwise go to supporting public transportation, bicycle infrastructure and smarter traffic planning.

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The city should attempt to recoup more of its costs from the G20 from the federal government, look into ways to offset the cost of non-resident use of city infrastructure like roads through entry-tolls, and increase parking costs (reduced car use helps reduce infrastructure expenditures).

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put tolls on the roads, people driving into Toronto from outside the area are not paying taxes to Toronto so we need to find a way to have parties outside Toronto help pay their share for the services in Toronto

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It's unfortunate that you didn't give us a choice about what user fees should be increased. The main thing you need to consider is road tolls.

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MORE BIKE LANES!!

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I am really upset by how much money goes to our police budget (particularly the 5 million into double-time for officers directing traffic around construction sites).  I want to see the city put more money into creating social equity and recreational and economic well-being, thereby PREVENTING crime and reducing violence, rather than pour money into INTERVENTION and crime management (jailing, court systems, etc...).  The more we decrease the gaps between the rich and the poor and ensure that marginalized peoples are provided greater access to quality food, jobs, and opportunities, the less crime we will have.  Access to nature/green spaces have also been proven by urban planners to be correlated with less crime, so this is another benefit of thoughtful environmental stewardship.   /  / Please consider pressing the federal government to reinstate the longer census forms, so that, as a municipality, we can gather more meaningful demographic data and implement more useful policy and funding plans for our city. /  / Please protect and ensure that water treatment remains in the city's jurisdiction and is not contracted out, as I do not want the safety of our water to be vulnerable to corporate and for-profit interests, without the appropriate goals and accountability structures in place.  I never want to see Toronto go through the kind of crisis that Walkerton experienced. /  / Please reinstate invaluable public advisory committees, to best respond to community knowledge and