A lack of TTC would cause businesses and the government millions of dollars in lost revenue[1]. Thousands of employees would have no means of getting to and from their jobs because the TTC is their primary means of transportation. The pollution levels would sky rocket if Toronto were eliminate the TTC service. The millions of people who use the TTC daily would have to resort to other means of transportation such as driving an automobile. This would significantly increase the pollution.
As listed in Wikipedia San Francisco is one of the few American cities with arterial thoroughfares instead of having numerous highways within the city. I personally cannot stand taking a highway the thought of dealing with so many drivers with road rage it just makes the commute very stressful. Public transportation in San Francisco is ranked 38%, making it first on the West Coast and third overall in the United States. There are other forms of getting around also; cycling and walking are two very popular forms of transportation. In San Francisco there are 75,000 residents that commute by bicycle per day and in 2011, Walk Score (WalkScore No.
English 102, 10:00 a.m. 5 December 2010 Midwest Meltdown Dear Mr. President, we are writing you today with great concern regarding the situation in the Midwest region of the United States. As the up 2012 presidential election quickly approaches we would recommend that your focus be directed to the Detroit, Michigan; Flint, Michigan and Youngstown, Ohio regions. Ohio and Michigan have lost anywhere from fifty –to-sixty percent of their population due to the reduction of available work, resulting in an influx of blight. Mr. President, there is much for you to gain by addressing the blight and lack of employment in the “Rust Belt” cities. Please address your attention to combating this through land banks, urban farmland, urban forest and
The most likely cause of this lack of follow up include the change in top management of the City, a very small marketing staff, lack of marketing experience by the marketing staff, and reorganization and realignment of the Economic Development department into the Community Development department as a division. As a whole, St. Charles and its neighbors are anticipating small increases in sales tax revenue as the economy in general improves (City of St. Charles, n.d.; City of Geneva,
PROBLEM: Many people are not informed about side roads of cyclist, let alone the safety precautions to take for cyclist. According to the Ohio River Trail Council, “There are more cyclists in the United States than golfers, skiers, and tennis players combined!” Most drivers are careless, therefore they are not even physically aware of the side lanes for bicyclist. SOULUTION: One way we can improve road safety for bicyclists is by making more bike lanes. Austin is fairly well known for having bike lanes, and should be used as an example for other cities to implement safer roads for bicyclist. According to Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center “A bike lane is located adjacent to motor vehicle travel lanes or parking lanes, and flows in the same direction as motor vehicle traffic.” Therefore the lanes will not interrupt regular traffic and can be added easily to ensure cyclist safety.
Of those centers, only 80 percent of them saw on average less than one Canadian per month and 40 percent had seen no Canadians in the preceding year (Aaron E. Carrol, 2012). Even further, 99.39% of Canadians said they do not come to the U.S. for care, 0.5% come to the U.S. for care electively, and 0.11% come to the US for emergency care (Phantoms in the Snow: Canadians' Use of Health Care Services in the United States, 2002). America’s 20 “best” hospitals were also surveyed assuming Canadians that were traveling for health care would go to the best hospitals we have to offer, and only one out of the 11 hospitals that responded saw greater than 60 Canadians in a year. Finally, data from the surveys of the 18,000 Canadians that participated in the National Population Health Survey was obtained, and only 90 out of the 18,000 had received care in the U.S. with only 20 of those 90 ventured to the U.S. expressly for health care (Aaron E. Carrol,
The stretch of highway between Victoria and Duncan on Vancouver Island has averaged in claiming at least 2 lives per year caused by its steep and winding turns. There’s no doubt these highway deaths have triggered local government to conduct countless reviews of the highways safety over the years. But are the pending improvements just another waste of taxpayer’s dollars? Why are we not working on alternatives? And in light of an impending natural disaster, is simply widening and adding concrete barriers really the answer, or just another band-aid remedy, only claiming to make the highway safer?
The Windsor, Ont., bridge is a key border crossing for trade between Canada and the U.S., she added, with roughly 10,000 trucks crossing daily. "Any flow of traffic stoppage is a pretty big deal, [but] we are told that is not the goal here today," she reported from Windsor. Organizers said it was an "economic slowdown" and "not a blockade." "We don’t want to inconvenience people too much, but we want to be in places that are going to get us noticed and allow us to get our information out," said organizer Lorena Garvey-Shepley. Elsewhere in Ontario, Idle No More protesters set up a blockade near Highway 6 and Caledonia Bypass, according to CUPE.
The reflection of the world in the 1908 papers show that it has substantially changed since then, most of the economic, political and cultural beliefs would very rarely come across our newspapers in today’s society. The political problems they faced in 1908 are quite different than in our current era. For instance we wouldn’t come across meeting times and locations of certain political parties, and the paper would be unbiased and have many more different opinions. Economically today, Canada has extremely good health care and although we pay for it in our taxes, it is extremely beneficial. The government’s priorities now are more on health rather than road construction or railway building.
This situation gets worse when one compares poverty levels in cities , where most immigrants first seek refuge . Gertler (2001 ) estimated that around 52 percent of newly arrived immigrants suffer from serious poverty problem compared to only 24 .5 percent of Canadian-born city residents . Is it that immigrants are lazy or work less ? No , because HRSD (2007 ) reports that 80 percent of immigrants living in poverty usually try to earn income compared to only 67 percent of their Canadians cohorts , and that only 11 percent of immigrants receive government Employment Insurance compared to 20 percent of non-immigrant .Different groups of immigrants are affected differently by poverty depending on their home countries . A comparison between Canadian born individuals and immigrants from Least Developed Countries (LDC ) shown in Figure 1 (Kassim Rothman , 2000 , 17 ) gives a clear picture of the sorry lives lived by this group of immigrants