Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 53

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Other Important Issues

399.     

The city needs to properly address and solve the problems of traffic congestion and lack of reliable public transportation.

400.     

Continue to consult with citizens on social service / Find money to deal with affordable housing / Give higher priority to environmental challenges / Deal with the auto mess by introducing tolls

401.     

Toronto property taxes are substantially lower than any other municipality or region.  For over 30 years I have listened to City councils worry about the impact of boosting property taxes and listened to rate payers complain when they should be dancing in the streets over the tax bargain that Toronto actually is.  If you think Toronto has financial problems there is your answer.  Boost the rate of taxation to something commensurate with the surrounding status quo and maybe we will be able to afford the transportation and infrastructure improvements this city so badly needs.  And, on a similar note, lets stop this nonsense of having the city responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks.  The municipality takes far too long to do it and doesn't do it well anyway.  Let's go back to expecting people to take care of themselves and their neighbours as well if need be.  Also, would someone please explain to me why every time we get a muggy summer day the city feels compelled to provide air-conditioned buildings for people to congregate in as though the human race will melt if the temperature climbs above 25 degrees.  Very few people had air conditioning at all prior to the mid '70's and we all survived just fine.  Really people.  It's summer.  Suck it up.  

402.     

-Make the Waterfront Revitalization project a reality as scheduled and without any budget cuts /  / -Expend our subway system. There's nothing wrong in taxing nonTorontonians by using smart Tolls technology that would bill non-Torontonians registered lic

403.     

Reducing traffic flow in the downtown core.  Redistributing Provincial tax money to the people who pay most of it -- Torontonians.  Asking outer-cities (Mississauga, for example) to pay for services used by its citizens.  Requiring city workers to live in the city that pays them. 

404.     

gender analysis and budgeting must be applied in order to understand how women are disadvantaged relative to men -- why do we subsidize parking and roads when public transport must pay its way?

405.     

too many unused bike lanes, especially in winter. bike lanes should be seasonal. / very poor snow removal service. / terrible condition of paved streets

406.     

Road Improvements

407.     

urban planning - neighbourhoods are a mess with all the intensification, bad OMB decisions and inconsistently applied "official plan". NO expansion of green space despite population growth. No provision for traffic increases with development. the waterfront is a  disgrace - its potential ruined by (previous) city governments and developers

408.     

We need an aggressive push toward more bike lanes.