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Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

companies do not pay adequate fees for use of City infrastructure for cableing or Wi Fi networks and yet they charger exorbitant rates, Bank Tax (Cdn banks profits increase and how do they contribute to our city's health and welfare), Coke, Pepsi resell City water - are they paying appropriate rate ? / Sweden has Parking, speeding tickets based on income - why can't we do that ?  / Where are the creative revenue generation geniuses ? Obviously not designing this survey..

279.  

Create Road and Congestion Tolls and Parking tax to pay for city services.

280.  

Funding sources should not be limited to property taxes and user fees.  The city should make wider use of the revenue tools that it was given by the provincial government several years ago.  Other revenue tools should be considered and negotiated with the provincial and federal governments, including municipal sales taxes, road tolls, entertainment taxes, etc.  Progressive taxation of property should be considered as well.

281.  

Road tolls should be instituted on all city run highways and major routes into the city, i.e.. Lake Shore, Lawrence, Eglington, Don Mills etc.  Also a downtown city toll zone should be create just like London England.   Parking rates should also be increased substantially. e.g. 100% and the vehicle registration fee should be reinstituted.

282.  

Are property taxes and user fees the only way to increase revenues? What happened to road tolls and gas tax and using the other tax options the city now has? Why could we not reinstate the car ownership tax? It was foolish to have dropped this tax. 

283.  

If the city wants to increase user fees then also put user fees (tolls) on the highways.  

284.  

Leverage volunteers for community-based services! I am an avid mountain biker and was SHOCKED when recently asked to volunteer to repair and maintain city bike trails, but they capped the volunteer participation to 20 people! Why discourage citizens from coming out to help their city???

285.  

1.  Reduce staff. Have current staff work as hard as anyone who is gainfully employed in the corporate world or runs their own business / 2.  Get rid of unions and thus huge pay increases, benefits, etc. / 3.  Fix/stop the gravy train / 4.  Stop wasting money  in useless areas and on useless ideas such as bike lanes on Dundas St. East  or Eastern Avenue when no one uses these lanes.  / 

286.  

Road tolls

287.  

bring back" cash cows" where there is a choice to make such as photo radar where we can choose to speed or not to speed.  / Use the plastic bag 5 cents / offer incentives to leave the car at home and reduce congestion

288.  

Much higher fees for parking / Car toll for entering city centre (like for London)

289.  

More user fees: / Charge a nominal fee for the 311 call / Charge a voluntary nominal fee for outdoor pools. / Charge more for permits/parking/events / Encourage corporate sponsorship of venues/events...plaster the sides of rinks/pools with logos etc.

290.  

The city should make use of all sources of taxes, not just property taxes - including road tolls.  /  / The city should petition the provincial and federal government for more sources of revenue - e.g. a sales tax.