Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 109

48.      

I would like staff to consider full life-cycle costs and investments. For example, poor maintenance and repair to streets and buildings costs more in the long-run. Also higher quality public spaces with durable and beautiful materials may cost more in the short term, but they bring economic development, tourism and higher property values which equate to more property tax revenue.

49.      

Art, culture and how we treat those most in need will be the legacies we leave behind and what we will be remembered for. Decent standards of living for all of Toronto's citizens is the most important thing we can do. While anyone stuck in traffic can curse that we need better infrastructure for our vehicles, we cannot forget that there are more pressing issues for this city. 

50.      

Our city is still not a very livable place when compared to other places.  We should continue to invest in connecting up the many walking trails that are interrupted by roads, golf courses, bridges, etc. such as the East Don trail.

51.      

More bike lanes!

52.      

Reducing Toronto's carbon footprint and making Toronto a more liveable city on a human scale. Significantly reduce automobile traffic in the city and institute user fees for drivers from outside Toronto to use the city's roads.

53.      

Snow removal is a complete waste of money.  Until amalgamation, except for North York, property owners were able to meet their obligations.  Why is it so essential now?  And the snow plows wreck my property after I have already shovelled.  A strong community will assist the elderly and infirm. 

54.      

Stop make work activities and use better material for filling potholes that last more than one year. 

55.      

Contracting out means that a company will make money providing the service.  Cost savings from contracting must come from lower wages of employees who are city residents.  The owners of these companies will do very well hopefully they live in the city so some taxes can be recovered from them.  Contracting out services seems short sited.  I am in favour of increasing user fees for those who can afford it and especially for things that we want to discourage people from doing such as parking downtown, driving.  Getting rid of the $75 vehicle registration fee was stupid and instead we have to contract out services to private companies so they can pay employees less.  Seems that the decision makers need some lessons in common sense. With these types of decisions the city will be  looking much more like Detroit in the future.   / Good luck with the survey - you should make the data publicly available.

56.      

More bike lanes and bike programs such as Bixi.

57.      

USE ROAD TOLLS

58.      

The number one problem with the city is that the politicians are running it and their primary concern is to be re-elected.  Further, politicians are good at getting elected - these skills don't transfer well to being effective managers or decision makers - let the area experts and senior staff make more of the decisions.  /  /  If politicians were truly looking to serve the community they would be making decisions based that do not waste money and resources.  Most people are happy to pay taxes IF and ONLY IF their money is spend efficiently.  Don't waste money on policy reversals that have little impact.  Don't waste money on undoing projects that were just done (see Jarvis, Bike Lanes).  Run the city like you would your own privately owned business.  Invest in having good people in key decision making rolls and listen to their advice.

59.      

1: Put ideological biases aside. I'm not ok with privatizing garbage if the rationale is purely ideological and the decisions to contract out was made from the start. Privatizing can help but many times the private sector won't re-invest in long term infrastructure - instead putting money to profit. And then when the buildings are all run down and the equipment breaking, they try to hit us up for the bill or leave us with a massive repair bill because they never maintained anything. We might save money in the short term by privatizing, but we must have guarantees that costs will be managed in the long term while maintaining accountability. /  / 2: before we panic about our tax levels, I'm pretty sure our taxes are lower than most other municipalities and our debt isn't awful either. If we really want to cut our taxes, can we upload services BACK to the province? /  / 3: From what I can see, we need a new relationship with the unions - one where they take more responsibility for costs. There are unions (like UA 46) that have "standards  of excellence" that their members are held to. That statement makes it clear that good pay and benefits should be earned, not given based on entitlement. There has to be a more constructive way to manage City services, and if this works, I'm sure we'll get far more productivity, quality and value for our taxes. 

60.      

Please consider the collective good, not just the good of specific constituencies. Toronto is an amazing city because of our diversity -- and unfortunately it feels that the same segments of our population are easily targeted with cuts. I would also like to see alternate sources of revenue considered, such as more toll roads -- those outside of the city who commute in regularly should contribute to paying for our infrastructure.

61.      

BIKE LANES!

62.      

Make more bike lanes. Provide a safe injection site for IV drug users. Increase social assistance and recreation programs. Keep streetcars. Improve education of bicycle and car drivers.

63.      

1) Making the city (especially downtown) more accessible (i.e. AODA).  / 2) Expanding bike lanes in the downtown core.  

64.      

why is the police service using up such big proportion of the city budget, there should be ways to reduce the cost of police services or some police service can be delegated to lower cost options e.g. police watching traffic for construction sites, or religious services.  Why does Toronto police has to be the highest paid police force?