Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 110

65.      

Toll roads! Toll roads! Toll roads!

66.      

We should look down the road and be more concerned about the future and our children and consider the environment first. without clean air and water we will not have a future.

67.      

Good for the environment.  Toronto once known as a clean city BUT today there is garbage everywhere, people still keep their cars idling and roads are not clean to allow for safe bike riding. 

68.      

City Council should consider the long term consequences of their decisions.  Transportation related contracts that have already been signed can cost the city more money when City Council decides to back out.  Existing infrastructure like newly built bike lanes on Jarvis shouldn't be removed because that removal is wasteful.    

69.      

There are more than one way to solve a problem.  The key is to look at the overall picture of any impacts that would result.  For instance, privatization of garbage service might save a few dollars on the surface, but the truth is that it could cost more at the end for the green bin exchange program.  It's a well-known fact that green bins would get broken more easily & more often when the waste collection was done by private companies.  So really, the City will end up paying MORE not less in replacing the bins for residents.  Another example is that by taking away the dedicated bike lanes, it would increase NOT ONLY on traffic congestion, but also on pollution, commuter frustration, which would actually COST MORE on the health care budgets. /  / So the question to ask when making decisions about service in the future should be: / Is the money saved actually greater than any associated long-term cost of this particular decision?

70.      

Licensed  contractors or service technicians should be able to purchase parking permits valid throughout the city valid for day use. Parking wardens should be issued Metro passes, a goo d pair of boots, and sent on their routes.

71.      

Try to repair relations on council to develop more co-operative relations between councillors/mayor with differing views.

72.      

More bike lanes in the city

73.      

Long-term view. Pinching pennies only feels good right now but we pay for it multiple times over down the road. DO NOT follow a Mike Harris model--it is disastrous.

74.      

more bike lanes!

75.      

Highway tolls!

76.      

Bicycles. More and better bike lanes.

77.      

Outsourcing is not always cheaper. / The city should take into account what impact the loss of control of a service would cause. /  / For example, by selling/outsourcing Toronto Parking means that it will likely be more difficult to develop or alter use of those properties later.

78.      

In an effort to save short term money (i.e. trying to keep Toronto's already low residential property taxes low), I fear council will squander our longer-term future. This relates both to hard infrastructure (my own street and sidewalks are literally falling apart from lack of maintenance) as well as soft infrastructure, such arts and culture funding. In the long term, a lack of investment in the City will reduce its position as Canada's premier city as well as Toronto's economic prosperity. 

79.      

The city provides services which some individuals and groups believe to be "necessary". Most of these are in reality, services which a city should not provide because they are not core municipal services. For example, cultural or heritage services, day care, etc. are services that should be provided by others. Core municipal services such as road repairs, sewage treatment, garbage collection, police and fire services have been neglected in order to pay for services that are not necessary. Simply put, the Toronto has lost its way. It is trying to provide something for everyone and in the process, taxes have increased and service has gone down. 

80.      

Seems as though some services could be streamlined a bit more to increase efficiency and therefore hopefully reduce some cost.  /  / A couple of examples come to mind. /  / 1) Street vacuums out cleaning the sidewalks/and trucks emptying city garbage cans on holiday Mondays, provided it's not a "problem" area would one more day really make a difference? I imagine paying wages on those days is fairly steep. /  / 2) Garbage being picked up between midnight 3:00 am on a very residential stretch of road is bad enough but by 3 separate (organics, garbage/recycling, yard) trucks! What happened to the vehicles that collected both organics and trash/recycling at the same time? Sometimes that's as much as 6 staff doing the job when it could be between 2-4. /  / Anyway, it all comes down to better use of resources and streamlining the service.

81.      

yes, the city needs to restructure to become more democratic - it needs to go back to a two-tier form of governance, similar to what we had before the megacity. we need a smaller council of 20 to 30 people to deal with running the city, but then we need to replace the community councils with local council - 6 to 12 councils, made up of people who do not sit on the city-wide council - the local councils should deal with planning and local issues, and have some powers to set development charges and pass traffic bylaws etc. /  / the megacity is a mess and many of our problems are because if this, and because of stupid "tax freezes" imposed by mayors. user fees are a tax by another name and so keeping property taxes low is often regressive and we end up spending more to collect user fees, like the thankfully repealed personal vehicle tax. stop playing games and recognise that property taxes are fairer than the alternatives, particularly as corporations pay property taxes whereas they rarely pay user fees. 

82.      

Accountability of those who may in the future have contracts to provide services for the city. We don't need to hear 407 style complaints about city services. Make sure that whatever decisions are made in the future that although it may cost the city less it doesn't cost the residents more in the long run (i.e. private parking services with no accountability, 407 again, fear of complaining about the private garbage contractor in case of retribution)