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Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

of hiring more people to clean more litter on our streets, get students on board starting at the elementary school level, by having monthly or weekly neighbourhood clean up programs as part of each schools student science/environment projects. /  / Bring back the vehicle tax instead of implementing road tolls or tariffs on those who drive downtown. In spite of being part of Mayor Ford's political platform it is time to bring it back. It is affordable even if one doesn't want it, that way, the money can be used on the City's transportation budget and help establish proper bicycle lanes. 

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It should carefully examine services that could be managed through performance contracts and get out of the business of providing services that are not germain to the needs of the City such as homes for the aged, parking and support services.

435.  

Toll roads, clever increase in residential parking rates (e.g. reserved on-street parking), bicycle registration tax

436.  

Reinstate the vehicle tax, increase parking fees, use all possible taxing authority

437.  

Reinstate the car registration tax. Also, consider road tolls. 

438.  

Toll roads for commuters from 905 using Toronto Roads every day but not paying Toronto taxes.  Or perhaps a commuter tax like New York is considering to reimplement.

439.  

increase car fees, tolls etc, reduce police funding

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1)city needs more separate and safe bike lanes.  / 2)The city needs to have clean air and water.  / 3)the city puts education of next generation first priority and job creation, / 4) police should not be placed at construction sites to direct traffic / 5) city councillors should pay their own lunches no perks just like any citizens / 6)

transparency & accountability is upmost important

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Vehicle Registration Tax, Tolls for those driving into the downtown core of the city.

442.  

Tolls on highways

443.  

impose parking charges on all parking lots, public and private

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toll roads. So many people who live outside of Toronto drive in every day and use the city's resources, and they should be contributing to the cost. There should be a fee for driving into Toronto Monday-Friday. Torontonians already pay high taxes and have higher insurance rates, while people in Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Mississauga, Brampton, etc. pay lower taxes and reap the benefits of a Toronto job. Completely unfair. 

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Negotiate with the Province for more funding tools. Road pricing / tolls.

446.  

Get rid of the Parking Ticket Enforcement.

447.  

Mix of property tax & road tolls

448.  

The City needs to look at other ways of generating revenues such as a share of the income tax (requires negotiating with the Federal and Provincial governments) and road tolls.  Relying only on property taxes and user fees seems short-sighted. 

449.  

Sales tax; parking tax; tolls; gas tax; hydro tax; vehicle registration tax. / Investment in energy efficiency to achieve long-term savings. 

450.  

Tolls coming into the city. Aggressively remove under-performing staff.

451.  

Reinstate the vehicle registration tax / Develop other taxing mechanisms like the

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

Land Transfer Tax / Increase fees for parking downtown

452.  

The City should lobby the provincial and federal governments for increase transfer of funds to pay for improvements in transportation and roads. Also, the City should examine its procedures to see if overseeing of the work it engages in can be simplified and therefore costs lowered.

453.  

Institute tolls on the highways and congestion parking charges. (Car drivers should be paying user fees too.) Decrease spending on police services.

454.  

tolls might be an option if the money went to public transportation /  / a vehicle registration tax might be a good idea

455.  

I AM FED UP WITH PAYING MORE TAXES  FOR LESS SERVICES IE GARBAGE,ROAD

REPAIRS WHILE JUST ABOUT EVERY SO CALLED "VULNERABLE ,DISADVANTAGED

,HOMELESS AND LOW INCOME RESIDENTS "FEED OFF MY TAX DOLLARS.MORE

ACCOUNTABILITY AND JOB CREATION PROGRAMS FOR THIS EVER GROWING NON

PRODUCTIVE ELEMENT OF OUR MUNICIPAL POPULATION NEEDS ADDRESSING.ALSO

OUR POLICE SERVICES ARE A DISGRACE.THIS OVERPAID UNDERPERFORMING GROUP CERTAINLY DO NOT DESERVE THE RECENT BENEFITS THEY WERE RECENTLY ACCORDED.

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Road Tolls are a possibility.   / Restore the auto tax that ford, in his folly, revoked. / Perhaps a city payroll tax. / Be very cautious about selling naming rights.  Our city is not a billboard for corporations. / 

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Road Tolls

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Fight for more federal/provincial transfers. Bring back the vehicle registration tax.

Impose road tolls. Impose a downtown congestion fee on traffic driving downtown. Increase the price of parking downtown. In short, tax those goods and services we find undesirable - pollution, un-green activities, etc., and reduce taxes on what we want to encourage.

459.  

Increase fees to non Toronto residents and those using non-essential services like parking.

460.  

Road tolls and congestion charges, vehicle registration taxes.  Increased fees for building permits and conditions for large developers to improve surrounding public spaces in order to build buildings.

461.  

Vehicle registration fees, road tolls. Perhaps consider charging an additional fee on ticket prices for the resources used for events in the city: e.g.: Jay's games suck up city resources, collecting a dollar on each ticket could go a long way. Or an extra dollar for every Ride for Heart registration, etc.

462.  

Cut paying salary to police to be present at construction sites; the builders should be paying for this and/or hiring their own security / traffic monitors.

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Innovative and uniquely Toronto taxes such as a hotel tax (as in many other cities), the land transfer tax and the car fee (to cover the huge cost of roads) are great ways to increase City revenue for those who can afford it.