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What is your most frequent mode of transportation?CarCarPublic transitPublic transitBikeWalkPublic transitCarCarCarWalkPublic transitTaxiCarBikePublic transit
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What is your second most frequent mode of transportation?WalkPublic TransitBikeCarPublic TransitPublic TransitWalkPublic transitWalkPublic transitCarCarWalkOtherPublic transitWalk
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What is the most accessible (affordable, safe & convenient) transportation infrastructure option where you live?Arterial roadsSubway or LRT linesSubway or LRT linesSubway or LRT linesSidewalksSidewalksSidewalksSubway or LRT linesBus or streetcar linesArterial roadsSidewalksSubway or LRT linesSidewalksHighways (Gardiner/DVP/401)SidewalksSidewalks
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In general, what is the most safe or most comfortable (in current COVID context) mode of transportation for you?CarPublic TransitBikeWalkBikeAll equally safeCarPublic transitCarPublic transitWalkPublic transitWalkCarBikeWalk
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Do you support the goal of having Complete Streets in every ward of Toronto and ensuring all road reconstruction projects have a Complete Street design option?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI am a strong supporter of Complete Streets and have created Complete Streets in my own community. Accessibility, safety, connectivity, vibrancy and economic vitality are the kinds of factors we need to consider whenever we rebuild a roadway. These plans must also be considered in the context of larger neighbourhood areas and coordinated to reduce conflict. Community consultation must be at the core of all changes to road infrastructure. The Complete Street mandate requires more transparent and present enforcement by City Council. The latter is only accomplished through financial infringement penalties imposed by the City of Toronto on construction and development companies.

The behaviours of third party companies will always be in alignment with their profitability; and as such, the City of Toronto needs to start speaking the language of capitalism when engaging with capitalistic bodies (ex., like companies).

This would also create a new revenue stream for the city in cases of Complete Street policy infringement. Investing this revenue stream into impacted wards would help reduce the opportunity costs associated with congested sidewalks - both for residents and business owners alike.

Framing the interests of the city to shine in all scenarios is how we begin to make Toronto the City of Tomorrow. 		By having Complete Streets in all wards, car fatalities would be reduced, plus an increase awareness of pedestrian safety, which would enhance relaxation of mind and body, less stress, healthy living,I have a degree in architecture and ben involved in urban planning matter for years. Unfortunately the planning "profession" is prine to fads and ideologically driven views about what makes a great city - and these are often at odds with ho people actually want to live or the realities of transportation in a major city like Toroonto that in in a country with an insanely high level of population growth driven due to immgration policy that seems to follow th ecentury Initiative goal of 100 million people in 2100 - check out the wikipedia page which projects the GTA will grow from 8.8 million to 33.5 million in 2100I have long been an advocate for safe streets and neighborhoods in Toronto, not in just some wards but across the City. In 2017, I voted as a City Councillor in support of bringing in the Complete Streets Guidelines, which came out of extensive consultation and evidence-based research on how to make our streets safer. In my time as a City Councillor, I have worked closely with neighborhood leaders on a number of initiatives that have improved safety, especially around the schools and the communities where people live. I support expanding and actually implementing the goals of Complete Streets, which previous city administrations have failed to do. I believe that Complete Streets Guidelines should be followed and implemented in new projects, except for in exceptional circumstances. Ultimately, my record shows that I am someone with the vision, concern for community wellbeing, and the necessary skills to build a better city with safer streets.


Toronto is one of the most diverse cities in the world and its policies must address needs of all community members.
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Will you support adopting a Vision Zero safety checklist of street standards which will be applied consistently city-wide?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI support a Vision Zero safety checklist, and assert that Accessibility needs to be built into our approach to design. Establishing a City Wide standard will create a more uniform standard that is inclusive of all people, and the diverse ways in which they navigate the city.

Toronto is currently too reactive, and only seems to offer attempts at solutions to problems once they're at an apex. Toronto becomes the City of Tomorrow by proactively forecasting problems, and then proactively implementing solutions in the form of Best Practices and Protocol. 		We needed safety checklists everywhere. Right now car speeding is up in numbers. Cameras are good but still checklists go hand in hand with citizen safety. By changing the mentality and culture of Vision Zero, people will clam down gradually, behaving less aggressive.No. This is an unrealistic anti-car project that I do not support and is partly responsible for worsening congestion and travel times, which also impacts the TTC too.

Speed limits should be realistic and remember that for global warming, cars are most efficient around 70kph.		My fully costed plan significantly increases the budget for the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan to focus on enhancing safety for our most dangerous intersections and roads. This will include additional community safety zones, watch your speed signs, pedestrian crossovers, missing link sidewalks and school crossing guards. It will also mean identifying and installing additional Seniors Safety Zones as part of Vision Zero to make roads safer for seniors and for persons with disabilities.I have been part of vision zero safety project for the past four years.Too often, and under previous leadership, the City of Toronto would develop thoughtful, evidence-based strategies and policies, but fail to fund or implement them. As mayor, I want to change the practice of failing to meaningfully commit to structural change, and so I commit to implementing Vision Zero consistently across the city. I will fight until we have a city where there are no traffic related fatalities or serious injuries, in line with Vision Zero. Importantly, I have worked in my ward with local residents associations to bring in Vision-Zero recommended speed limits along key roadways. I have consistently voted on successive council motions aiming to promote and advance Vision Zero objectives, and will only further advance this as Mayor.
I have released a comprehensive Traffic Safety Plan that is deeply informed by Vision Zero. My plan commits to increase capital investments in road improvement by $33 million
and doubling current funding over two years to prevent fatalities.
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Do you commit to supporting the streamlining of the traffic calming process in this term of Council?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsAs a City Councillor, I was responsible for bringing many new traffic-calming measures to my community. We know that reduced speeds save lives and we must make the process for residents to request traffic calming measures easier and more expedient. The City needs to mandate a foundational framework of traffic calming in all scenarios to establish resident familiarity. Communities will be more inclined to align with policy when they are familiar, comfortable and well informed on it.

We then need to create a tiered system in which this foundational traffic calming framework can escalate based on project scope severity. This might come in the form of a "Degrees of Traffic" or "Level of Severity".

This will offer the city, residents and external parties the flexibility and level of customization necessary to navigate complete and atypical scenarios as they unfold. 		As before mentioned. drivers are still too aggressive. A car is a luxury to enjoy, not a weapon to intimidate innocent people just wanting to relax and spend time with their loved ones.Nope. This is slowing down cars and the city cannot afford many of these measures - we have a major budget crisis that candidates are ignoring.

In fact,many new cars now come with automtaic pedestrian braking features which improve safety and make such calming measures superfluous		I am all for the green space and planting trees to improve the environment and reduce noise. I am strongly supportive of improving the traffic calming processes in the City of Toronto, and have led the charge on implementing them in Toronto-St-Paul as a City Councillor. Back in 2014, I played a leadership role in the reduction of neighborhood speed limits to 30km/h. This was a significant success, as the following years saw a 28% decrease in collisions and a 70% reduction in the severity of injuries. I am also committed to working collaboratively with the Community Councils in the future on ways to improve the processes through which decisions around speed reductions get made in our neighborhoods. In my Traffic Safety Plan, I want to change the current request based system for Vision Zero improvements which produces inequitable outcomes across the city. I believe that our streets should be safe places. I am committed to making changes across City Hall that will make processes better, while also more adequately funding the City’s initiatives in the first place.


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Do you commit to ensuring the roll-out of speed limit reduction to 30 km/h on all residential streets and to supporting the implementation of a city-wide default speed limit of 40 km/h on all arterial roads?YesNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesNoYes
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CommentsI fully support making speed reduction an important part of our City’s traffic and safety priorities. Different areas of our city have different traffic needs and we must work with local communities to ensure that these changes are communicated and implemented with an understanding of neighbourhood context. Changing speed limits, on their own, doesn't change driver behaviour. We need real solutions that make everyone more safe. This requires a thoughtful implementation approach that increases safety, which is how I have approached the issue in my ward during my term on Council.Yes, but I only support this through road design. As long as our roads are designed to move cars quickly then speed will result. We need to redesign our streets so that speed is self limiting rather than relying on signage and enforcement, neither of which truly make our streets safe.Yes, and reduced speeds to 10kms in school drop-off zones with double cameras. If you leave a little earlier, you reduce risking the life of your child to get them on time for school.Absolutely not.

Speeds should be realistic and not driven by ideology. As I mentioned, cars now come with automatic braking features. Low speeds also mean greater driver inattention and frustration.

And frankly, we are not going to monitor this in an evenhanded or effective way.

When I started driving, arterial roads were all 40mph and residential streets 30mph. The studies on lower speeds tend to be about road speeds above 40mph.		Lesser the speed more control you have. I am all for reducing the speed further down to 25 km/hIn my work as a City Councillor, I have been instrumental in listening to the community and advancing community safety measures in Ward 12, the ward I represent. As early as 2014, I was the first to begin proposing measures to reduce speeds in Toronto East York from 40 km/hr to 30 km/hr, which led to a 28 per cent decrease in collisions and a 70 per cent reduction in the severity of injuries in the following years. The City subsequently rolled out lower speed limits across Toronto. This measure culminates from a series of engagements with the community and traffic operations staff through regular traffic safety meetings. Serious safety concerns around speeding and other forms of reckless driver behavior that endanger students. In my Traffic Safety platform, I have committed to investments in infrastructure and street improvements that make it safer to walk, bike and drive. Our streets must be designed to improve comfort and safety for all users.

My Toronto app includes in mapping how long a trip may take by walking, biking, bus, car with the most accurate reading for vehicles based on designated road speed allowance.
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Will you support measures to improve safety for people walking and accessibility across every ward of Toronto?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI support the spirit of this policy on a go-forward basis. We must increase safety and accessibility for pedestrians city-wide and I will support this at the scheduled reconstruction stage for transportation projects. Wheel trans user have a terrible time. The one thing I hear about, especially people using walkers, is rough sidewalks, holes, damaged cement. My Mother took her walker to the mall nearby and almost collapsed from the bumps and easing onto roads to cross because of bad maintenance.
Crossing wide roads with fast lights is terrifying. How many times I see seniors on an island between lanes, in fear to cross in time on the next green light.
I live in The Beach where such rules might be impractical, and I grew up in Don Mills where there was no sidewalf on either side of my street.

The sidewalk crossings might make little sense in suburban and non-residential areas.

Far better to use discretion instead of blindly setting rules that might not actually produce the intended result.

And I do support providing reasonable changes for people with disabilities - having had to deal with my mothers illness after she could no longer drive in 2011 due to declinign health and finding inadequate or substandard parking but also wheeltrans service.		Safety and accessibility should be at the core of how we design our city, as the vast majority of journeys around our City start on foot or with wheels. The distribution of traffic calming measures in Toronto revealed not only disparities in the number of measures implemented in low-income versus higher-income. As Mayor, I will commit to shifting the budget focus from operating investments in behavioural modification measures like signage, distracted driving and red-light cameras to capital investments in infrastructure and street improvements that make it safer to walk, bike and drive. I will ensure Interventions that provide the most impact in improving safety and accessibility are designed to improve comfort and safety for all users.


As noted in my link in answer #3 above includes expanded sidewalks that include accessible infrastructure such as seating and planters (some with trees providing shade) for resting as one walks across Wards.
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Will you support these initiatives to ensure there is a safe, connected network of protected bike lanes across every ward of Toronto?YesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI fully support providing additional resources and improved reporting to accelerate the implementation and transparency of the City’s Cycling plan, which I supported at Council. The City has made strong progress on the implementation of new cycling infrastructure by confirming the pilots launched during the pandemic. It is now important that community voices are not lost as we adjust to this new infrastructure. Our suburbs are especially underserved by cycling access, which is why I have committed to significantly expanding Bike Share in our suburbs. Complete Streets are an important model for multi-model transportation and should be implemented with community consultation where most appropriate. Cycling infrastructure is about public safety. It's important to ensure this infrastructure is built well, in places where it makes sense, and that it forms a connected network. It also needs to be done in consultation and partnership with the local community to ensure it is designed correctly and can be sustained.The 2023 completion date may not be feasible.I support protected cycling infrastructure and I support making all roads safe for cyclists. I do not believe we need to increase staff, funding and and operations, we just need to divert existing staff, funding and operations from car centric work the city does into people centric work.I wish all bike lanes to be complete, all connecting, intersecting. There have been enough surveys, consultations, stats taken from previous projects to say YES, bike lanes work well and reduce fatalities.Nope. See my other comments. Toronto is not Amsterdman with has about 800,000 people and a climate milder than Vancouver's (less rain yet alone less snow) 6 months of the year most people are smart enough to not ride. Projects like the bike lanes on Woodbine and Danforth are a mistake.I worked with city staff and local residents to install and make permanent two vital north-south cycling routes on Winona Drive and Yonge Street. The ActiveTO Yonge Street project’s connection with the Bloor Street bike lanes and the Winona Drive Contra-Flow connection to the Shaw Contra-Flow was key to both projects’ success. The ability to build a functional and connected network is crucial to the safety of vulnerable road users. It is absolutely a necessary goal to achieve better coverage and a more connected cycling network, however, it is only one piece of the puzzle. Creating safe side streets goes a long way in allowing for organic networks to form. I plan to do this through filtered permeability enhancements through the Neighbourhood Streets Program and our Vision Zero program. The goal of ensuring 20% of all of Toronto’s road network has safe and dedicated bike lanes is a goal that we should absolutely strive to achieve and I commit to working towards that goal.
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Do you commit to supporting policies and Active & Safe Routes to School program funding to ensure young people can safely walk and bike to school?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsSchool zones must be safe for all children and families, regardless of how they are getting to school. I support the additional standards and attention on improving traffic safety in school zones and was the first candidate to announce specific measures and new technologies to improve school zone safety. The additional costs would be paid for through increased fines and enforcement of traffic violations.There are 2 schools behind my building. To get to them you have to drive down my side street and return the same way to the main road. It is so dangerous with impatient parents, rushing to drop of their kids, plus side parking. Make it car-free would see a big change.Car free zones? We have helicopter parenting and parents often pidk up and drop of kids, particularly in bad weather.

And 3km from a school is excessive - the distance from Bayview Avenue to Don Mills Rd is 3km - so this is absolutely nuts as it means a km radius. 6km diameter is the distance from Yonge to Dufferin! 		I’ve worked with various public schools in my ward to implement Community Safety Zones. As Mayor, I will be committed to providing safety on school sites with my plan to increase the Vision Zero Road Safety plan by 150%.

The City’s Vision Zero plan spells out how to improve road safety for people traveling on foot, by bicycle and car. Instead of relying solely on signage for school or senior safety zones asking motorists to slow down. We have to design roads that make every road user feel comfortable. We need to recognize that humans are fallible and that a mistake in a car shouldn’t mean severe injury or even death for those outside the car. My plan prioritizes functional safety measures such as curb and sidewalk extensions and garden boxes to create chicanes. I will continue to work with all relevant City departments, residents and school boards to ensure that active and safe routes to school policies can be implemented throughout the City.
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Do you commit to reallocating resources away from on-the-ground police enforcement for traffic safety and investing in alternatives such as the City’s Traffic Agent Program and transparent, equitable traffic reporting tools?YesNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI support the expansion of the Traffic Agent Program and the importance of applying an equity lens to traffic infrastructure so that low-income and equity-deserving communities are not disproportionately targeted by traffic enforcement measures. I will increase funding to the Traffic Agent Program (costs offset by increased ticketing) rather than reallocated resources from the Toronto Police Service budget.
I support greater use of Automated Speed Enforcement cameras to keep communities safe, and have called for an additional 200 to be rolled out.

There are many measures we need to undertake to improve traffic management - including using parking enforcement officers to manage busy intersections and hiring a Congestion Relief Commissioner to coordinate construction activity.

However, our police play a vital role in upholding public safety and I do not support reducing their budget to fund this work.		Police look bored when assigned conducting traffic. Get people that want make a difference. I know they allocate millions for these officers. They make enough. Direct funding where best suited to the Agent Program. We can do better but I dilike the use of automated cameras.

Police offcers are extremely expensive and we have a budget crunch so finding less expensive ways of ensuring safety is important.		A key concern I have heard from community members is to reduce police involvement in traffic infractions. There are ways to use the budget more meaningfully. As Mayor, I would like to bring together academics, activists, and city staff to reform how traffic safety is conducted. On top of the design changes that will impact the behaviour of reckless drivers, racial disparities in traffic stops have continued to raise an alarm in our City. Just this year, the California Senate has passed a Senate Bill 50, an important bill that will authorize communities across California to enforce their traffic laws with non-police government employees. Also, in New York efforts are leading to a federal granting program to fund non-police traffic enforcement. As Mayor, I will be looking for successful and innovative reforms on how we can rethink and improve road safety for all civilians.
reallocating resources towards life-affirming services and programs has always been part of my Mayoral platform solutions since the outset of my Candidacy. My concern about the Traffic Agent Program currently is its role in positioning people as Special Constables— increasing Police/Special Constables is not part of my platform mandate.
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Will you support reallocating road space for temporary and permanent car-free interventions on a regular, recurring basis?NoNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsI support efforts for car-free times and zones in our City, however, wish to ensure that these are done with close consultation with residents and the local community. Kensington Safe Streets has been a welcomed pilot by local businesses. Due to the significant diversity of uses in High Park, however, I support a hybrid approach to balancing the needs of different types of park users. I also support seasonal changes that increase access to cycling options during the months where this activity is most popular. After much consultation, the city is moving forward with having more car-free hours in High Park while still protecting access for those with accessibility needs. As our city continues to grow, we need creative solutions that balance a variety of needs.I would love to see Front street car-free. It is very busy during tourist season. It is a great area to set up outdoor bars, patios, play areas for kids, so much more. Other streets could become permanent car-free zones.As someone with a degree in architecture I aprreciate practical and beautiful design solutions.

But the car is not going anywhere and we have to deal with a aging population as well as issues of people with disabilities who need to be able to function and do things like shopping year round.

We have been eliminating "reduncancy" in our transpoartation and other systems - any interruption has a domino effect. And it will get worse with more growth and densification.

The housing crisis and transportation crisis is because Trudeau listens to Dominic Barton/McKinsey/Century Initiative & population growth is great for driving up housing prices/driving down wages and pushing our roads and transit to the limits. 100 million in 2100 = 33 million in the GTA! Yikes!

See my online op-ed at https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/05/10/the-real-cause-of-torontos-traffic-congestion-and-housing-crisis.html 		Infrastructure changes that improve conditions for vulnerable road users are a critical first step in ensuring permanent car-free interventions across the City. There is a strong desire to improve safety, accessibility in our City. Several strategies must be considered and developed in a manner that maintains the safety and enjoyment of all other users. As Mayor, I will support the reallocation of funds to improvements to pedestrian, cycling and parking infrastructure, transit and shuttle service, and public realm and re-naturalization opportunities. I support changes to reduce conflict among road users, including dedicated multi-use trails in Toronto’s ravines and parks, design changes to dangerous intersections, and ensuring those with mobility challenges have equal access to all pedestrianized spaces. The reallocation of road space has successfully created more livable and pedestrian friendly communities across the globe, I am hopeful that Toronto can be a success story.


In fact, our another campaign slogan is create parks; not parking lots.
Instead of lecturing drivers to get out of their cars, invest in reliable, efficient public transportation to give workers a meaningful choice. Stop plundering the protected green belt and congesting urban cities with anti-environmental policies.
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Will you support initiatives that promote alternatives to driving in order to fight congestion, support healthy and active lifestyles, and reduce car dependency in our city?YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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CommentsHow about bike taxis. It is done in Europe. Electric taxis throughout the GTA, Get rid of street parking in many areas. Downtown has 100s of parking sites. We don't need extra parking which just takes up space and interferes with bike lanes.Most of the residential land area in the city was built after WW2 - suburban twisty streets like where I grew up in Don Mills.

Cars are not going away - in fact, the move to EVs will mean that the "marginal" cost of driving will be cheaper. My Honda Civic goes 12-15km on $1.50 of gas in the city - more on the highway. EVs and plug-in hybrids cost more to buy when new, but the marginal cost per km is lower.

So, we obviously need better transit - we have not been investing enough since Mulroney increased immigration rates in 1990 then Harris cancelled transit lines in 1996.

Toronto needs more green space and parks. In particular, the downtown and waterfront lack enough parks for the current density yet alone the units in the panning stages. And there are 200,000 units rezoned in the last 5 years and another 400,000 unites in th eplanning stages - and we build under 20,000 units per year in the 416 and close to half of all new housing in the GTA, when it was < 25% in the 1990s.		As Mayor, I will commit to Investments that will reduce car dependency in our City. By investing and expanding public transportation networks, my plan will provide the City of Toronto, a more accessible and affordable public transportation option. Enhancing public transportation is one of the most valuable ways we can promote a healthy and safe mode of transit for Torontonians, while also reducing emissions. I recently announced that I will immediately reverse the cuts to our TTC services connecting underserved communities, faced with long wait times. In an effort to advance alternatives to driving in our car-dependent communities, I announced the Scarborough Moves Plan, a $1.2 Billion commitment to connect a network of public transit routes and cycling and walking trails that will shorten commute times and improve quality of life. My new direction for housing, works to create more liveable neighbourhoods by being creative with the limited tools at our disposal.




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I advocate to change the system that undermines environment threats.
Scientists have been warning about climate change for over 50 years. Big oil-sponsored studies fret about paper straws while billionaires fly about in private jets. No more hypocrisy but real meaningful actions to fight climate change.
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Please use the comment box below to share any further thoughts.I am the only mayoral candidate who will work tirelessly to accommodate all citizens and tourists to ensure Toronto is a clean safe world class city. Toronto needs a commonsense approach and I am the individual who can accomplish this. Some candidates just want people to cycle, or just walk, or just take transit, or just drive. I want to keep traffic moving safely for everyone using our roads. I have supported bike lanes where they make sense and will continue to be a champion for community consultation and pragmatic and practical measures that improve road safety for all road users. Please take a look at the essays I am writing during this election to promote a city with safe and vibrant streets. Go to https://sarahclimenhaga.substack.com/ to read more.Yes, I would strongly support community advocate Alison Stewart if she ran for council in 2026. She is one of so many great volunteers who help people with such passion from the heart and always ready to lend a hand. This survey is a prime example. We have 218,000 immigrants who came to the Toronto area last year - plus 21,000 natural growth, so about 240,000 total demand. That is 100,000 to 120,000 housing units, but then 96,000 people left because of high housing prices and lack of good jobs.

Toronto is past its peak of liveablity and things are getting worse - high populationgrowth is a mian factor and we cannot expand the road system and transit will cost billions in $$$ 4 we do not have.

The city also faces a budget crisis, and the micromanging of a Ford government that has made Toronto worse and compuned the changes started with amalgamation in 1997.

In university I was exposed to the book "Limits to Growth" and then later other environmentalists - the idea that population growth an economic growth are alaways beneficial and can go on forever has long been debunked yet nobody is talking about the fact that growth is what is mainly causing problems in this city. Population growth shouldn't drive economic growth.
The past decade of leadership starved the services that made Toronto the incredible city we all know it can be. The deterioration of our city was a choice. This election will offer a choice of two different visions of Toronto - one of a city that works in the interests of all Torontonians, and another vision of a Toronto that continues to work for deep-pocketed special interest groups. This is the time for us to stand up and stand together to choose a better future. I have a real plan to fix our city. One that ensures buses and streetcars run on time to ensure that our city can be accessed by all Torontonians. That our young people have the programs they need. That Toronto is safe, affordable and filled with energy and opportunity for everyone. It’s a plan that the City can afford and that is actually doable. My platform includes realistic plans and explains exactly how we will pay for them.

Together we can make it happen. Better is possible!

I don’t ask for or accept financial donations. What I do ask people to do is use your influence. Please review and share my Community centred, life-affirming, innovative, accessible, proactive solutions with your family, friends, neighbours in Toronto & your social media network

History holds receipts. If you know of me, you know that I’m of the people, by the people, for the people. I centre and advocate with and for the Public. I’m Community wellness focused, smart, creative, innovative, insightful, empathetic, energy efficiency minded and solutions oriented, tenacious and don’t back down at the first sign of opposition. Your vote empowers me with the tools necessary to protect our collective rights and interests. I’m relentless about justice, equity, fairness.
As part of my City-Owned-Build-Our-Own mandate financing proportional to need will be in place to ensure maintenance of all structures, services, developments. What we prioritize, we pay for.
We need to make the city accessible for everyone. We need to promote an exercise program for all. People need to go for walks more often and eat a good dietMy plan as mayor is to continue to remind people about how gas emission is not good for the planet so that pressure is on to get people into the habit of reducing gas emissions. There are many people that simply do not care or have any concern about the air quality and the pollution that we are doing and I want to change that.

As a Mayor, I will continue to use my bike like other mayors have done in the past to get around the city. 		As a socialist candidate for mayor, I believe in addressing the root causes rather than short term profit driven solutions. I will make transit free for all. It works to reduce inequality in the big city while encourage more people use public transit instead of sitting in traffic. Likewise, students should never have to choose between bus fare and lunch in a wealthy city. Criminalizing poverty through expensive fare enforcement is unjust, anti-environmental and not to mention bad look for tourism.
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