Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 47

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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Bicycle lanes and keeping them safe from cars the same way we keep pedestrians safe from cars with sideWALKS. SideRides are necessary. Support for buildings in the downtown core offering daytime cycle storage and even businesses offering shower and change facilities for employees who ride to work.

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Transportation, explore road tolls, explore "above-ground subway" e.g. Georgetown line

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Fair and affordable taxes should mean user-fees such as road tolls. I pay 80% of my bus trip, how much of a car trip is paid for by the user?

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Parking permits. Fair numbers issued per street. Priority issued to properties without parking pads / areas. One permit issued to actual property owner. Secondary permits only considered on a case by case basis when space available and issued for greater cost. Income properties NOT treated the same as private properties. Tired of the rooming house and three adjacent house (renovated into apartments for someone's income) taking up all the street parking!

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the right of residents to have input and some degree of control over development in their area / homeless people on the street / lack of street parking & overzealous parking enforcement / loss of trust in the police / psychotic bicyclists

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condo development and how it effects traffic

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Sprawl raises environmental, transport, energy and service costs for the whole city.   People should not be unfairly subsidized to live in the suburbs through road, school, hydro, water/sewer and other infrastructure provision when the whole city will pay the burden of these inefficient developments for decades to come.  We need strong leadership to shape the city and lay the groundwork for its sustainable material form now!

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Maintain & expand our EXCELLENT library system; more downtown bike lanes; increase ARTS funding; decrease police salaries.

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- A second expressway route into/out of downtown Toronto - like the DVP, but for the western side of Toronto, connecting Hwy 400 with downtown. The "Don Valley Parking Lot" needs to be alleviated. / - A subway along Queen street, from the Humber to the Be

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poverty reduction, more bike lanes

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Police budget is insanely high! Reduce the number of police and increase the number of medics. How is it possible that police are patrolling the roads for basic traffic issues? This cost us too much and does not increase safety. Privatize traffic cops. Reduce police salaries. An Edmonton and Vancouver cop have harder jobs and are paid way less.

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

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I don't know if this is the appropriate spot for making the following point as I don't yet know what is coming up in the survey. However, here goes. / I have an issue with Toronto Businesses postering on public property. In sections of our city, the street poles, garbage containers, phone and electrical  boxes. It is a defacement of our city and just looks plain tacky and degrading. It cheapens the look of our various communities and thus encourages littler. Just like the mayor's initiative to rid the city of graffiti, this should be another initiative. Take a walk along the section of Church St, between Carlton street and Bloor St. , . The mess on the street poles doesn't stop there. It follows on other streets like Carlton and Wellesley. /  / What really adds to my disgust at this mess on our streets is seeing city workers being paid to remove the posters, and then to see someone else come along and immediately put up more. What a waste of taxpayers money. I own 2 businesses. They are both in the hospitality field. I have never postered on public property. It just irks me to see my competition put posters all along the street for free, while I choose to pay for my ads in print publications or in the mail. I am now even using radio. To try and shame my competitors to stop postering , I put in the bottom of all my ads "KEEP TORONTO BEAUTIFUL- WE DO NOT POSTER ON PUBLIC PROPERTY". This did nothing. Some of

the posters are offensive to some of our citizens (although I do not favour censorship, these other businesses should know better and respect that some sectors of our population, like children, should not be seeing some very graphic images. /  /  / We need to charge all Toronto businesses that put up posters on public property. I propose a $100 per poster. We use some of our existing bylaw enforcement officers to take a picture of each poster that denotes the location and date and time of the poster. They would then mark the poster as being already "caught. The fine would then be sent to the offending business to be paid like a traffic ticket. If they want to argue in court, then so be it just like a parking ticket. /  / The benefit: Reduced pollution of our public streets, increased revenue via the appropriate fines, and a reduction in the number of city workers required to remove posters for our public property. I can't see any lose here. /  / We would ignore signs from the general public such as garage sale, or lost kitten etc. /

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People should be able to get around the city safely and easily without great difficulty.

The construction that has been happening on Roncesvalles lately has been a disgrace. The outsourced construction company has been doing a terrible job, having to redo work 3 or 4 times in order to get it right. Roads are torn up numerous times because nobody is managing the project effectively. This is a significant waste of our tax dollars. Pay more for a quality company to get the job done right the first time without inconveniencing residents and businesses.