Reputable cities have reputable skylines. As a child and still to this day I find something fascinating about catching a glimpse of a city skyline from a highway or hilltop. For a city under of nearly half a million and even compared to cities under a million London has a great skyline. Buildings such as one London place, TD towers, and the newly completed renesiance, there is a couple new ones going but Id like to see more. I was reading an article recently saying that the renisaince sold out no problem so there is a market for high rise condos.

Is there a way to give companies incentive to build large structures in a city or decide to construct a large office building or headquarters in your city?

I personally would like to see something taller than One London. Just a thought.

The internet is a utility and people in downtown/old south/ old east London/ could use this to encourage innovation, communication, and attract businesses to the core. Also as a part of this we need more art/performance spaces that are inexpensive for artists to use. One of the amazing things about cities like Edmonton, Kitchener/Waterloo, Kingston, is that they create the spaces for their artists to work and show their work. Nuit Blanche this last weekend was a great example of what happens when the arts are out in public and are easy for the artists and public to access. But many businesses were closed. Why? If artists attract people, and they do, then business can use that for their benefit. So we have a free utility, Internet, combined with inexpensive and accessible art spaces, feeding businesses in the downtown bringing more people into the downtown and not leaving right after - like the JLC.

I have been a customer of London Transit for many of the 50 years I have lived here. London Transit is bursting at the seams, London can simply not grow any longer with the current strategy.
When compared to other cities, such as Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara Falls and even Lindsay, our transit system is abhorrent! Many major routes still run at half hour increments. For instance, to make it downtown for 9:00 am to be to work from where I live, I have to catch the # 14 Highbury at 8:04, and transfer to the #13A Wellington at 8:10. God forbid the driver is late on the # 14, if so, you have to wait until 8:20 for the 13A, which puts you downtown right at 9:00 am and leaves no time to actually walk to the office!
I have another trip that requires both the #14 east, to transfer at Highbury and Hamilton Road to the #4 Hamilton Road bus. If a connection is missed, this can take more than an hour for a 10 minute trip by car!
How can we convince young people to stay in a community that, in essence, forcing you to buy a vehicle?

Not that I dislike the Bach/beethovan, it just has a very limited appeal & makes our city look even more conservative then it already is.

Artist from EVERY genre should be able to have their music played through out the day all along Dundas, street with a digital panel showcasing what is playing, with the ability to vote on what should be played more often. Giving London that digital/high tech/creative/etc feel that London is trying to attain.

This though CANNOT be restrained or else it will lose its focus, I mean yes some music is not exactly pg rated, but what downtown is? Neither are the drug dealers and screaming homeless people downtown, in the first place.

To start on a positive note i think the roundabout at hale and trafalgar was a great idea and solution to congestion in the area. I hope to see similar solutions, they dont all need to be as large scale and costly.

Something needs to be done about the train that runs through the core. It backs up traffic so that vehicles are backed up at lights for blocks on Richmond and Adelaide sometimes. There is an overpass on Quebec Street and a subway on talbot but other than that no good traffic flow north to south through the core.

Parking in the lanes on roads such as hamilton and dundas creates issues as 2 lane traffic is suddenly reduced to one. Accidents are also caused this way. We could try to limit parking on major roads in certain areas only during peak traffic hours.
If the city is expected to grow improving the citys traffic flow should be high on he priority list or its just going to get worse.

For the far off future decades from now I hope the folks down at city hall are thinking about implementing some sort of expressway system consisting of rehabilitated existing roads and new constructed ones where land can be obtained. It would be nice to have some expressways with limited access for more free low traffic from suburbs to the core.

London is a great place, but it has a reputation as a WASPy, conservative, unfriendly city for a reason. In general, Londoners need a city-wide training course in friendliness and warmth. Newcomers from as close as Windsor and as far as Africa will tell you it takes a long time to call this place home. How about we all start by looking up at people we are passing on the street, how about we smile, say hello. That goes for shop owners too. How about we stop complaining about vibrancy - like music that can be heard from one downtown park, or a Yoga class being held in another. How about we head outside, meet our neighbours and enjoy our growing diversity. Who knows. It might be fun.

London is obsessed with retail big box sprawl which basically pushes the boundaries of our city and creates empty retail spaces throughout the inner city. This is madness. I probably don't have to convince you, but look around and you will see places like Westmount Mall, which was once thriving and is now empty because developers built their sprawl at Wonderland and Southdale. It makes no sense whatsoever and we the taxpayers pay for all the infrastructure that comes with the sprawl. Stop the madness!! Our city's priority should start at the centre and work it's way out. If we continue the sprawl, we will continue to have this problem.

There is no greater symbol of London's inabilty to "Get with it" than the freight trains that run through the centre of our city. The CP rail line should be rerouted around the city and replaced by an elevated monorail running from the Hyde Park area to the airport with a downtown station at the Selby building on Richmond Street. This would provide an east/west transit corridor that could also include walking and bike paths. The next time you are stuck in traffic waiting for a train just visualize a sleek vehicle gliding above the freight with tourists waving and commuters texting.

The same people are always loitering around the D&R area everyday. They are loud, rude, visibly dealing drugs and they make the area feel scary and unsafe.

I don't have any great ideas on how to fix the problem but I was hoping to get a conversation started.

One of my ideas would be to change some of the bus routes so that there aren't so many busses running through. Just change the route by one block so it's not a long walk for people to the next stop, but enough to get them moving out of the same congested area.

Another BIG idea would be to make D&R more of a part of Richmond Row with restaurants and shops that can open up and create jobs with the support of the city.

This is Londons biggest asset for tourism, Lets restore the gardens this year and promote this as one of Southwestern Ontaio's best parks.
At 300 acres, Springbank Park is the largest park in London. On 30 kilometers of trails, visitors find everything from naturally wooded areas to perfectly manicured formal gardens. One of the city's most popular spots for runners and roller bladers, the park is also home to picnic areas, soccer fields, a wading pool and the well-known attraction Storybook Gardens. The recently opened Springbank Gardens, a restoration of the popular 1940s park attraction Wonderland Gardens, includes an open-air pavilion and bandshell that are used for concerts and other park events.

Facilities at Springbank Gardens are available for private events. Springbank Park is open daily from sunrise to sunset. Admission is free