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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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Loosen up London
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…
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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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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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Clean up Dundas and Richmond
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…
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Encourage people to shop in the neighbourhoods where they live.
I know the London Strengthening Neighbourhoods Strategy task force is already looking at this and I think it's a great idea. Imagine a city where everyone walked to their local grocery store or local business. Win for the business. Win for the environment. Win for the community.
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21 votes
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Restore the Festive Atmosphere
Give families a reason to come downtown, clean-up the Forks of the Thames, aid, promote and restore the summer festivals we've lost (Like the Childrens and Balloon festival).
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12 votes
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Both the market and state have failed Londoners. Change happens from the bottom up.
We need to revitalize civic society and revitalization begins from the bottom up through civil association.
London needs more small businesses, neighbourhood shops and a more diverse economic base. Economic problems that cities such as Detroit and Windsor face are due to reliance on a narrow base of big businesses.We also need to be proud of our greenspace. Zoning bylaws should be changed to accommodate more urban agriculture and urban forests. People should be encouraged to drive less through more subsidization of public transit and walkways.
We need stronger neigbourhoods with strong civic associations and local institutions ranging anywhere…
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London needs a name it can uniquely call its own
London was a name already taken when we adopted it way back when. Too much named after the other London. Why not dust the old name, like Thunder Bay (Port Wm/Port Arthur) and KW (Berlin) did?
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we need to focus on what makes us different.
Every city has a downtown, nice neighbourhoods, entertainment centres, markets etc. What makes London stand out? The river? The music or arts scene? Whatever it is that makes us different, we have to celebrate it.
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Bus Passes Included With Taxes
Having a LTC bus pass included in tuition for Fanshawe or Western has been successful, why not start something similar city-wide? Offer bus passes to Londoners and have the cost included in their taxes. Granted, this idea wouldn't work for people who rent, but it's something worth trying to encourage people to drive less.
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London needs some great attractions in the CORE of the city -bring excitement to residents & tourism
Major cities that have excitement to them have something that people want to see - attractions that entertain and educate while providing a fun escape from mundane every day life.
I think that it would be great if London brought something exciting to the core like an aquarium, a museum, a natural science center, solarium, observatory, botanical garden, a conservatory, an "actual" art museum, etc.
Think of all of the cities that people flock to - they have something to see and do while there. What does London have besides the JLC and the Grand? Not much else.
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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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Allow Buskers Downtown and Take Away Red Tape for Small Entrepreneurs
Make it easier for someone who wants to start a sidewalk business. Take away all the rules and regulations associated with trying to start a simple business. Encourage micro business so people can take control of themselves easier.
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Local businesses: create jobs with security, benefits, decent pay, and room for advancement.
After reading the article on the LF Press about our identify issues and the need for young people to stick around, my first thoughts are on the job market. With the people I'm connected to, London does not have a good reputation regarding its workforce. We are a city full of call centers and other places where people have low-paying or minimum wage jobs. The workers have no job security and no way to advance in their fields. When I first moved here, I worked at a call center with 1000 people. People were hired or fired without a blink…
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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…
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London has no distinct culture
this is what the creative city initiative was trying to enhance. Guelph, K/W, Ottawa, even Brantford have identifiable music/arts "scenes". Since London's punk-rock hey-day in the 80's there has been no dominant sound/style coming out of the city. not sure if it has to do with the lack of venues (although the London Music Hall is a new one that is the best I've seen in 10+ years in London) or the fact that young people flock OUT of the city. Could be that there's more effort put into snuffing out fun (see Rock the Park complaints) than there is…
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