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8 votes
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Fine people for throwing cigarette butts on the ground in the core - Dundas/Richmond is disgusting
Just a few years ago, dog owners were not required to clean up after their dogs and now the sidewalks are free of dog excrement. It's time to do the same thing with cigarette butts - especially in the Richmond and Dundas area. We walked through there last night on our way to dinner and commented we would be embarrassed to bring guests downtown. We felt as though we were in a ghetto.
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Promote "clean" industries.
London is a much "cleaner" industrial town as compared to Sarnia or Hamilton. Medical, University and College resources are significant employers. Good city to live in and raise kids. Need to increase green space especially with new developments to try to reduce increased temperature from all the roads and pavement.
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Expropriate that building at the corner of R&D from Farhi & build a public square
That building is a huge eye sore & an embarrassment to the city, to have it at our main intersection. It needs to come down its a hideous piece of 70's architecture.
I propose that when it is demolished to turn it into a public square, full of benches a fountain & maybe an icecream stand or something alike.
Either that or create a new huge mixed-use building that adds the city skyline & will finally give Richmond & Dundas the reputation it & boost it needs.
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Stop the sprawl
Randy Richmond tells us that London doesn't want Toronto like population density. No we don't; We should strive for even more density than sprawling Toronto. Paris, France, is only a fraction of London's area. How is that possible? It has a population density 25 Xs greater than ours. Sprawl must end. We need some truly creative solutions to our housing needs. Maybe we should look outside North America, to places as distant as Baku, Azerbaijan, and their White City redevelopment to find inspiration. (Note: I said inspiration. I am not suggesting we simply copy the ideas of others.)
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Why spread out when we can build up. Promote the skyline.
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…
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Obvious traffic and infrastructure issues. Citezens hate driving here.
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.
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Free Wifi Downtown and Cheap Art Spaces
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…
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The music playing at Dundas & Richmond, & The Library should showcase local artist,& be interactive
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…
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I beleive part of the problem with migrating students is London Transit
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…32 votes -
New London
The name of this city needs to be refreshed, there's too much confusion between London Ontario and London England. The name "New London" would allow London to be more distinctive while keeping its history. I can just read it I'm from N.L. Ontario. :-)
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Fix the Parking downtown
Get Impark's monopoly under control. Downtown workers are being severely gouged and considering we are the only people who shop downtown (due to lack of parking) we need to be cut a break so we can spend more money at stores in the core rather than on ashphalt spaces run by an uncaring company. Parking rates have increased by 40-50% since 2007. My lot has gone from $69.00 incl taxes in June 2007 to $118 for June 2011. Impark's lots are poorly maintained and managed. The only thing they fix is broken cash collector machines and ticket issuing machines
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A Project that would forever change London's Image
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…
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3 votes
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smartmoveslondon.com is a joke
The city of London has set up a website called smartmoveslondon.com. The purpose of the website is so Londoners can comment on the direction of transportation in the city. The entire website is filled with spam and is an embarrassment for the city. Either clean it up or close it down please.
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We need a big change to the Covent Garden Market
Covent Garden Market is smaller than it was and has lost the diversity and realism the old market had. All the fruit and veg stands are from the same family so there's no choice there. The Western Fair market is so much more vibrant. It's great to have a farmer's market out in the sweating heat and sun a couple of days a week but otherwise it's a yuppie's dream. There is no reason that the Market can't do the job of a grocery store except we need to make some big changes to make ownership more diverse so there…
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7 votes
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Look to Cleveland.
The Free Press should be careful when acting smug. The paper asked: "Who wants to be the Cleveland of Canada?" According to Wikipedia, "Cleveland is considered an exemplar for public-private partnerships, downtown revitalization, and urban renaissance. In studies conducted by The Economist in 2005 Cleveland was ranked as one of the most livable cities in the United States, and the city was ranked as the best city for business meetings in the continental U.S." Have you seen Cleveland's market? Or the Tower City Center? Or it's heritage district? Cleveland has serious problems but that does not mean one cannot learn…
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21 votes
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Public Naturist/Nudist Beach or Resort Within City Limits
Since London is so culturally diverse, there is one culture that seems to not be talked about very often in the mainstream media, yet there are more and more men, women and young children practising it every day and that is the so-called Naturist and Nudist culture.
Although there are still many people not comfortable with the idea of going naked in public, there is an ever-so-increasing number of Londoners alone that have broken through their fear of their own self image along with the barriers of sexual repression and live as clothes-free as ever! It is these people that…
11 votes
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