Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 25

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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Bike lane on Bloor Street. / Continuing with respectful growth of waterfront according to the existing plan. / Ensuring a football stadium is not placed anywhere near the waterfront. / Continuing the community based policing model. Including preventive measures such as police on bikes in laneways. / Community centres and activities for at risk youth. Including cheap user fees. / Pursuing road tolls as a way to curb congestion and raise revenue for the city.

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gridlock traffic / wasteful spending

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City/province should consider building bike lanes so potential accidents do not occur with the warm days ahead especially in the downtown core.

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We need to stop catering to people who live outside of the downtown area. They should not be allowed to dictate lifestyle choices for people who live in the downtown core. They (usually) don't pay Toronto taxes and they use our infrastructure and contribute nothing except making Toronto worse for those of us who live here. / We should also work on preserving our beautiful heritage buildings. Europe has managed to do this and have liveable and beautiful cities, so why can’t Toronto. / If I hear “war on the car” one more time I’m going to scream. Please. People who actually live downtown know this is a joke. The only war on the car is construction and road closures, a raised bike lane is not going to kill people, and yet people don’t complain about the crap at Bay and Adelaide that has been going on for almost five (or longer) years. Have you even tried to walk in that area? If people want to commute to downtown Toronto to work they can take the train like every other civilized city in the world. / People who complain about the high taxes are living beyond their means and should not be living downtown. It’s more expensive to live here because of the benefits. If you can’t afford the taxes move to a cheaper suburb, so that the services that made this city so great don’t have to be cut. / Can we please reverse amalgamation? The downtown core has different needs than North York, and Etobicoke. You just have  to look at the neighbourhoods in these areas to see the obvious. / Do NOT let Kensington market become a car-free zone! It will lose its character if this happens!

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Speeding up the length of time that construction projects (road work, sewer repair) take. Pony up for weekend/evening hours for these workers and give the city a slightly shorter period in which to deal with oppressive traffic and construction projects (Avenue Road, the 401, Front Street, etc.)

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Support of bike lanes. Bixi is a great new addition - let's make sure that it works!

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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Look at existing services that can generate money for the city.    /  / Look at the Green P for example, this is an excellent opportunity to generate some money. Using

Etobicoke as an example,   / a lot of lots in the west end are always empty, but do not allow for over night parking. Create a program that allows local residents to purchase monthly passes for these unutilized lots (make it easy to do) and generate money for the city, rather than having them either park illegally or wrongfully. /  / The city has allowed Bloor and Islington to become densely populated with high rise towers, but it does not accommodate the parking needs of residents.  This is an opportunity to accommodate residents and to make money.  / Rather than saying NO to a monthly pass for these lots, embrace it around the city and make money doing it.  Every $50$100 collected per resident helps the bottom line. / 

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Efficient, renewable and fair use of tax payer money. I live near Little India, where there has been some improvements on going, but why is it that the richest neighbourhoods have the nicest roads, sidewalks and other city beautification efforts and the poor neighbourhoods have cracked sidewalks and pot-hole filled roads? The areas look less inviting and businesses don't grow, and the circle continues.  /  / Arts Funding needs to send Toronto artists touring internationally for them to gain momentum.  Audiences want to see work that has international acclaim, but how can our artist achieve this without more support. We need our artists to stand up on the Worlds Stage with confidence. Right now this is not happening, Ontario's contemporary dance companies are diminishing as artists look to other countries or provinces for work.  

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Traffic congestion

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Waterfront redevelopment. Also, there should be a charge to use the DVP (like on the 407) with this money put into building a down-town relief subway line. 

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The ongoing debate between cyclists and the city needs to be resolved. The city needs to accept that bikes are a part of the Toronto environment and the cyclists need to declare themselves pedestrians or vehicles; they can't continue to be both. Confusion over the role of cyclists is causing cyclists to get hurt, pedestrians to get hurt, and drivers to get sued. Cyclists don't know (or maybe don't' care) that they need to stop at stop signs. I have almost been run over several times by cyclists disobeying traffic laws. Collisions between cyclists and pedestrians can lead to severe injuries like collisions between cyclists and cars or cars and pedestrians. There needs to be better communication between all parties. There need to be laws, rules and guidelines instated so all parties can coexist peacefully and we can have a safer city. 

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congestion of traffic

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Computerized control of City works. We need fewer stop signs and more manageable traffic lighting systems to get traffic moving properly and make air quality better.