Roads, sidewalks and transportation services. To begin, what do you think are the most important issues facing our city in 2011, страница 95

Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

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Bring in other taxes and fees. Reinstate the vehicle licence tax. Charge motorists to drive within the downtown core. Provide road tolls on major city expressways. Increase charges for use of plastic bags and have vendors remit 50% of fees to city coffers. Avoid contracting out services, as that has been shown to be a more costly route. Do not sell off city infrastructure, as that is a more costly route in the long term. Seek to become a city-state, making Toronto a province.

345.  

Unfortunately, at this time, we need to cut on services.  The City should focus on what 'traditional' City services are.  Road.  Police. Fire.  I pay taxes for Culture at the provincial level.  The City should NOT fund this.  Free market should take care of housing.  I do not believe in government intervention in the life of people.  My taxes should help the helpless.  Not the clueless!

346.  

Charge more for development fees. Introduce congestion fees. Introduce road tolls. Charge more for parking.

347.  

Services for individuals and groups: increase user fees, tolls etc. Charge Businesses 2% surtax on gross/business / Issue City of Toronto Bonds

348.  

The City should reinstate the car licensing tax to recuperate a major source of income that can fund public services.  / The City should also implement road tolls  as a source of revenue.

349.  

Bring back vehicle registration tax / Variable (street) meter parking pricing / No free parking at shopping malls / GPS parking pricing / Road pricing (aka region-wide road pricing, or other alternatives, such as congestion charges, cordons, HOT lanes, toll roads, etc.) / Companies responding to RFPs must demonstrate whether and how environmental costs have been accounted for

350.  

Road tolls for all during business hours and a congestions tax for non-residents

351.  

The police budget has to be cut drastically.  This can be done without a reduction to services by, for example, having only one cop in a car (instead of two), getting cops out of the office and onto street patrol, allowing non-cops to supervise construction sites and direct traffic, allowing true civilian oversight of the police, etc.  

352.  

Countless great items are put to the curb each day.  The city should operate a warehouse that sells to the public and that items should be picked up by the city and a small staff be on hand to repair , refinish and make items saleable

353.  

look into congestion charging and toll road fees

354.  

Move toward road tolls for major entry roads

355.  

Our city should be great, not a series of farmed-out services. A tax increase and road tolls will help us maintain quality services for our citizens

356.  

Levy a congestion charge to help fund infrastructure and public transportation. Continued lobbying of federal and provincial governments for funding in proportion to Toronto's contribution to their respective budgets.

357.  

Road tolls / Sell bonds / lobby Queen's Park

358.  

Create new taxes and fees. Taxes should be created to lower government costs. Like the bag tax reduces the cost of cleaning up litter. We need taxes to reduce government, property taxes don't help anything. Increase the cost of getting things