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Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

different from one another and when information is not available.  For example, Parking generates revenue for the City, but you wouldn't know it when filling this out and so someone might place it in the outsourcing box, misunderstanding that it would somehow be cheaper to privatize it... really this would be a lost asset!

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Introduce road tolls and bring back the car registry tax. Continue to increase property tax so that it is on par with surrounding GTA municipalities. Do not introduce user fees for low income/vulnerable service users (i.e. offer subsidies/waive fees for low income users, and don't charge fees for programs targeted at these groups).

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You could look at additional taxes aside from property taxes, or introduce toll roads for instance

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Core road toll, like in London

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Explore road tolls, congestion charges, a share of the gas tax, and potentially a municipal income tax similar to New York

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Provincial funding due to the influx of 905 residents into the city each day for use of garbage, roads, etc.

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- privatise parking services, privatise toronto hydro, slow down capital spending by 10-15%, setup efficiency pay increase (who reduces cost gets raise) instead of only performance pay, reduce number of bell phone lines, restructure management to reduce l

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Tolls on highways.

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We pay approximately 10% less property tax than comparable properties in the GTA according to Cam Weldon.  I would prefer to pay a bit more in taxes and maintain the same or better level of service. Also I am concerned that by contracting out services, it may backfire on the City 5 years in the future where private sector companies start charging more for services than what could be delivered in-house and the quality of service diminishes. Case in point, snow removal is already contracted out and yet the service is not delivered consistently across the City.

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Bring back the drivers registration annual fee / use revenue from the parking tickets / install road tolls 

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Learn to manage city projects and services more effectively & efficiently to keep cost and schedules in line. For example. I don't see why street car track replacement on St. Clair and Roncesvalles should take over a year to complete. Or why all road repairs take excessive long periods of time, especially when most of the time the road is kept blocked or ripped up but no work is being done for weeks or months. 

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Congestion Tax

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Road tolls on all major highways within the 416. Maintain the Toronto Land Transfer Tax. Request the Province of Ontario to allow the City to add a 1% Municipal Sales Tax, as is done in many US municipalities.

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The City needs to make sure that it does not focus exclusively on reducing taxes to the point of damaging this city in the long-term. If the Mayor made a promise he can't keep, he should own up to it now rather than pull a Mike Harris and cut taxes only to see taxes have to rise after he's gone to repair the damage of starving the City