Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 72

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

exemptions around churches. Reinstate the vehicle fee. Make property taxes reflect servicing costs rather than market value: e.g., more spread-out properties cost more to service so should pay more. Charge a congestion fee for people bringing cars into the inner city. Lobby the province & the feds much harder for a greater share of the tax money that is collected from Toronto residents. Make the province take back paying for the services that were "downloaded" by the Harris government.

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BIKE LANES!

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Stop using machines to plow the sidewalks. People should clear their own snow. Just clear snow for the seniors and special needs people. /  / Encourage Libraries to collect ALL overdue charges and NOT waive charges for argumentative offenders. /  / User fees. we should pay for the services we use. /  / WHeeltrans. I use it. It is exceptional. It is costly. I think some people abuse the system. I think it should cost a little more. /  / Cut back Sunday hours at libraries. Why do so many libraries need to be open on Sundays? Keep a few big district or  reference libraries open but why open smaller branches all over the city when it costs so much?

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raise parking prices  / raise property taxes more in suburban areas to promote home ownership downtown  / make sure that developers and others who make immense profits from the city are paying their fair share in fees and taxes / do not agree to high cost events in the city such as the G20 conference

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seek funding from other levels of government. Specifically, get the province to take back those services downloaded by the Harris government.  / Tax the churches and eliminate free street parking outside churches on Sunday mornings.  / Seeking funding from government (or elsewhere) should have been an option when asked whether to choose property taxes, user fees or reduced costs.

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Congestion charge, as in some European cities, for example, London, UK. / Highway tolls. / Competent management, as I believe is generally the case presently.

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tax road users. there are too many cars on the roads.

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The city provides great service on many fronts. However, It's alarming that the budget is in the state that it is. Are there not other ways of decreasing spending? We need more transparency- true transparency that is not buried on a web page somewhere that is practically impossible to locate. I'm sure that there are costs that are inflated- this is the city's opportunity to be innovative about spending without causing having to slash services. If we are not careful about what services and/or staff that are slashed or contracted out, we may incur future costs (i.e. realizing down the road that we need to hire more people again which means costly training, hiring processes, etc.) / Interestingly, the city seems to find ways to incur more costs as it is. Why are there so many processes, permit requirements, and so on? This means more paperwork and more staff time dedicated to it. The regimented Health Inspector program is causing people to go underground in order to be able to make food to sell for their livelihood or in groups so that they can avoid these processes and fines and course fees (Food Safety).

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Bring back the vehicle registration tax and other such taxes, especially those that