Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 94

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

331.  

Yes, do what all major cities do, either tax all vehicles that are driven in the city not just those who live in the 416 area or impose road tolls.

332.  

Your choices needed to include road tolls, private sponsorship and renaming of subway stations (ex. Bloor station could be renamed  Hudson's Bay and maintained by them.) We should refuse to fund all social services that were downloaded from the province under the Harris government years ago. Long term care & public health should be funded from the province too.

333.  

Impose road tolls on drivers who come in from the 905.

334.  

There should be tolls for cars to enter the city - Torontonians pay for the infrastructure used by people coming to work in the city, but don't pay any taxes. There should also be a municipal tax on purchases of gas, alcohol, cigarettes within city limits. 

335.  

The City should take expert OUTSIDE, EXPERT, UNBIASED advice on tolls for use of roadways, gasoline tax for maintenance of roads and highways, etc.

336.  

sell assets / focus on must be done and reduce needs to be done / focus on things to increase productivity of city economy, e.g. traffic congestion / broaden the tax base / consider toll roads

337.  

The City should consider alternative sources of income beyond simply property taxes and user fees.  How about a municipal income tax?  How about road tolls?  

338.  

Tolls on access routes to the city. 407 type tolls on major city access roadways are the standard in most other large cities worldwide. Toronto's services on a whole are being utilized by millions that live outside of our cities borders. Small increases in user fees and collecting tolls at access points to the city will offset the required property tax increases. The burden of refugee and new immigrants should be eased by federal monies. 

339.  

Sales taxes, road tolls

340.  

/ - Implementing tolls on all  roads & major traffic arteries  coming in and out of the city; /  / - City lottery; /  / - Rent out computer-hours not being used by City computer servers; /  / - For current "free services" ask nicely  the public to "pay-what-you-can" fee (so that whoever can, will collaborate). /   / 

341.  

Partner intelligently with  new technology companies to develop solutions such as shallow geothermal and solar that will heat community centres and put energy back into the grid at a profit. Develop unused parking spaces in consultation with community groups to provide new retail and social gathering spots. We challenge you to innovate, rather than seeing the problem as an either/or situation (cut services or raise taxes). That's binary thinking and we can do better.

342.  

Road tolls; cost of plastic bags to increase and go to the city rather than to businesses; billboard tax to fund arts and culture; lower police salaries; cut the number of police officers given that crime has been steadily decreasing for years. Providing affordable housing is also far cheaper than the staggering costs of homelessness.

343.  

Land transfer fee, registration fees on cars, tolls on highways