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KEEP CHAIN RESTAURANTS OUT OF DOWNTOWN
Why is it that in DT London, where we are supposed to be promoting local shops and restaurants, a Jack Astors has just opened up on the corner of Richmond and Central? What's worse than that? Apparently right across the street where Mongolian Grill used to be, a Boston Pizza is opening up.
So while independent business owners are struggling to provide good service and keep business, these corporate chains are just laughing.
How is that fair?
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Build on on the name 'Forest City'!
Make an extra effort to create more prominent green spaces downtown and all over the city. As well as a stronger effort to preserve and nurture the beatiful nature within our city. So we can become a model for other cities to look at and follow..
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Repair sidewalks
London should repair the sidewalks. They should also put some nice brick on the sideways to make it more visually appealing. Lastly like in Europe we should have two different colours on the sidewalk, so there is one side for bikers and one side for walkers or runners.
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LTC Refunds when the bus is 5 minutes late or FULL.
Western and Fanshawe students, arguably the LTC's best customers shouldn't be paying to wait.
I've had countless times where trips to University for important meetings, assignments, due dates, etc were botched because the bus was full or late.
So frustrating.
If the LTC is incapable of serving us, the customers, we deserve a refund for each trip they fail to provide.
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Demo Ugly Houses On Highbury and Hamilton Roads
What ugly eyes sores for people to see coming in off the 401.
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Just Some thoughts...
London needs some vast improvement; I think we can all agree on this. So these are just some of my thoughts about improving London. Some of these ideas have come from talking to others, reading these threads, and some of my own thinking. So just to state I do not take ownership of any of these ideas...
Develop a free-way. London has some of the worst trafic jams and congestion of any city. Whoever planned out the roadways did a terrible job. A free-way would alow for greater movement, bringing people to other parts of the city they normaly wouldnt…
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London's dominant industries and institutions have failed over time to invest, promote, and exploit
London's dominant industries and institutions have failed to invest, promote, and exploit growth and jobs for their graduates. These businesses, which derive great tax and services benefit from being supported by this communitiy, fail miserably at applying their collective intelligence and wealth to finding and developing new startup businesses and cultural opportunites that would attract or keep young minds. Where is the UWO and Fanshawe committment to this city off campus. Why is the medical and health industry that finds much of it's root research and development in this city not exploiting further businesses along this food chain in the…
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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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London Needs to Think Big
We need to cast aside the prevailing attitude of myopia that plagues this city, and we need to shed the small town mentality. London is not a small town, it is a thriving city of close to half a million people. London needs to cast the die on a project that will distinguish it from the other cities of SW-Ont. A project, for example, installing muni-fibre, or becoming a leader in green energy would grab people's attention and make them think, "There's a city on the rise, that's where I'd like to live."
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Cities are rarely, if ever, boring
I believe if anyone labels an entire urban area, a place with a population greater than 350,000, dull and boring, the person is revealing themselves as dull and boring.
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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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Family Entertainment opportunities in East London - similar to Storybook, Adventures on Wonderland
It's a pain to have to drive for 25 minutes to do something extra special with a family. West London has Adventures on Wonderland, Kidscape, Storybook Gardens, the Aquatic Center, Springbank Park. What does East London have? Kiwanis Park - yehaw! Bring in something to entertain the families of East London so we don't have to drive all over the place. Give us something fun!
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traffic
london needs to do something with the traffic lights, maybe synchronize them? that could help people running red lights, help traffic flow, and gas use. Maybe more over/under passes for trains, 20 minutes for a train at 5 pm is terrible.
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Festivals, Excitement, Parking/Traffic
Bring back Gus Macker & the rest of the festivals which brought people pouring into Downtown from places as far as Ohio. Bring back some rock concerts, some excitement... everything we lost to a conservative mentality. This city is very car oriented, so parking is a given. Without it downtown will suffer... Mr. Farhi didn't get as much success as he has achieved by being an idiot regarding property, business and the overall basics of what fills his commercial space. Also, build some wider roads/expressways... anyone who has seen Wellington at 5pm would think this was Los Angeles.... just ridiculous,…
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