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Originally Posted by qprcanada
The city has had three right of centre mayors in succession who have kept taxes rate increases below the rate of inflation and the city has suffered as a result. The city is in worse shape than it was previously.
Infrastructure is decaying especially in the old City of Ottawa where older infrastructure needs renewing or replacement.
Transportation infrastructure planning has suffered the most, Line 1 has been built and Stage 2 will eventually open but definitive plans for Stage 3, Carling, Baseline, a ring road, Bank St have not materialized.
In order for the city to grow these issues need to be addressed.
A mayor and council with some vision and ambition are required.
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Yeah the voters pretty definitevely want lower taxes rather than throw some money at a few more bus routes and more complete streets. I wonder do Toronto rate payers feel like the 9% increase changed their lives for the better? Certainly we are accumulating some issues from underfunding but you can't run on I will increase taxes 5% instead of 2.5% and you won't see any benefits but in 10 years we won't be in such a big hole.
There is no appetite at all for a 20% transit increase to actually improve service. Despite the claims that will make traffic better most of us know it gets hardly any cars off the road and thus benefits the small minority who commute by transit most of whom don't pay taxes. (Well a huge increase in taxes could see it passed on in a rent increase)
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