Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 66

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

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In general, I feel that services we all use such as water purification and fire services should be paid for from property taxes. Services only used by some, such as daycare or parking, should be funded by a higher proportion of payment by the user.

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toll on the Gardiner, dog licenses

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Tolls for cars entering and exiting the city core on the Expressways.

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Not by cutting and gutting programs and services!  The City of Toronto is NOT a private-sector corporation or "free market" business enterprise ... It is a "communal” institution, public trust, PUBLIC SERVICE, Resident-Citizen-TAXPAYER-led -- and we all are, even the poorest! -- paying taxes that is, in addition to our citizen-taxpayer rights, duties, et al. Bay Street is no more important than Jane & Finch -- this city is only as strong as its weakest parts -- and unless "equality of opportunity" in the most public-minded, public-spirited, public-funded "access for all, equality for all, opportunity for all" is talked and walked Toronto will decline, be less than the sum of its wonderful diverse "parts" = communities ... and will see the already widening gap between the "Haves" & "Have-nots", "Rich" and "Poor" become an unbreachable chasm that no one will escape "fall-out"- wise ... No matter if barricaded selves behind gated communities, etc.  The City of Toronto belongs and is responsible and accountable to ALL of its residents-citizens, taxpayers, whatever the "sector" or "socio-economic" or "ethnic, cultural, religious, gender" et al. “community" they belong to individually, collectively, "class"-wise ... A polarized Toronto serves no one's interests and diminishes everyone's quality of life, health, welfare, and wellbeing, sense of belonging, pride, and community engagement and connection, makes strangers of neighbours, fosters distrust, alienation, and a breakdown in safety, infrastructure, and all other measures by which a city is "ranked" as either "working well" or "beyond repair" ... The policies and programs, the cuts to services and supports, the contracting out and other non-ROI direction and measures that I see Mayor Ford and Toronto City Hall Councillors, bureaucrats and consultants "allied with Mayor Ford's political and ideological agenda", including the less than democratically "ramming" through, non-consultative, non-collaborative, shut the public out, likewise of those councillors (who were elected to represent their citizens and residents) who don't hold the same views is alarming to say the least and damaging to the very fabric and functioning of Toronto currently, as well as in the short- and longer-term ... In this regard, I must protest how this particular survey 's "design" -- including rankings, and also glitches in the actual "mechanics" for moving items from a higher to lower priority, or vice-versa, and the language such as "I don't care!" repeatedly throughout, or limiting the actual number of choices from 3-5, etc. will definitely skew the results and don't reflect or capture my TRUE sentiments or choices ... I've heard this complaint from others who've taken the time and effort (I'm on at least hour 4!) to fill this out, to provide invaluable feedback about these crucial issues and the crises either already underway or which I believe Mayor Ford and his "allies" on City Council and otherwise are determined to inflict upon mine and millions of others’ beloved Toronto and its very institutions, communities, streets,