Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 107

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Make a plan and stick to it rather than bickering, studying sometimes for decades!  Are you tearing down part of the Gardiner or not.  Make a decision and that will allow a final plan to proceed for the waterfront which is accessible, not cut off from the city and a pleasure for all to visit and live in!!!

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1) Determine if the City should really be providing the service at all.  For example, police offices standing around doing nothing at construction sites, city run theatres, golf courses, etc. / 2) Look into more effective ways to deliver service - Toronto Hydro becomes Toronto Water & Hydro for example, smart water meters that report usage back automatically so no one needs to come and do meter readings.  Use technology, kiosks, etc., to make delivery of services cheaper.   / 3) Address the parking elephant that seems to exist - all traffic in the city (buses, cars, bikes) would move a lot better if on street parking was reduced, if parking laws were enforced and if cars that were in violation were towed rather that just getting a ticket yet remaining where they are, impeding the flow of traffic.  Create parking zones for street parking where pricing is the same within the zone. / 4) Adopt a system similar to Montreal's snow clearing that forces parked cars off the streets during snow clearing or they're towed.

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Please harmonize the work on roadways - currently, roads and sidewalks are a patched and repatched mess. / Is there a way to streamline the departments that currently oversee this? This is a major oversight, and an embarrassment to the city. Roads, Sidewalks, Overhead Lines, Street Furniture and fountains, all need work. / Trees are also badly treated in Toronto. It would be good to see the city treating it's trees well, and planting better sidewalk canopies. / 

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Increasing public transportation and eliminating car traffic downtown should be a priority.

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The City has to step in and make up for citizens who don't care or who can't fix something they do care about,  for example citizens who treat animals like disposable property or would throw garbage anywhere it suits them, or citizens who have to travel on deteriorating roads or live near large convention areas.

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Money should go to funding children's programs over paying $65 an hour to policemen working on road construction. This is definitely a service that could be done by a private firm. That same money would help lower income families make important decisions regarding service for their children and ultimately for themselves. EG. if a child does not have a community program during the summer, a parent may have to quit a job to care for them or even worse, leave them alone all summer! That could create a disastrous situation.

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It is important to try to think long-term, and not just in the next few years. For example, spending more on construction of City buildings now, if it will mean longterm saving in energy use down the road. Or, in the 1950's the city was expanding its water mains and to keep costs down, switched to a new type of cast iron pipe called spun-cast, which was faster and cheaper to produce, but also corrodes quicker and now replacing these pipes as they break is a major problem for Toronto.