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Accident Waiting to Happen: 1000s of people J-walk everyday at University Ave & Lester
A residential street, called "Lester Street" is walkable distance from the University of Waterloo. Now, 4 apartment building are on this residential street. This means 1000s of students are living on this tiny street. Everyday, all of us cross the main road at "University Ave & Lester St" numerous times. Since there is no traffic light, we find ourselves J-walking and running across the busy street. We hear cars honking sometimes. In rush hour, we just wait along the sidewalk, and the number of students waiting goes up 5 to 25 in minutes. We miss buses waiting like that, and…
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enact a more efficient snow removal system for roads and sidewalks
I am a student living near the University of Waterloo, having lived in Toronto and Brampton, and been quite frequently to other cities in the GTA such as Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Oakville and Burlington, and I must say, the snow removal services in Waterloo are HORRIBLE.
I have witnessed many main roads being uncleaned and un-salted 6-8 hours after the last snowfall. The sidewalks close to the University area take DAYS to shovel. I have already witnessed 2-3 falls personally just in the first week of school in 2015.
My street, Lester Street (close to UW), sometimes takes a WEEK…
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I would like to hear the city's explanation on why the price of swimming pass being raised over 50%.
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think a bit before ticketing people who leave their cars overnight outside drinking establishments. You're sending a couple of messagaes: "H
You (the city) may want to think a bit about the messages you're sending when you ticket people who leave their cars overnight outside drinking establishments: "Drive home drunk so you won't get a ticket!" "Don't visit our city's businesses!"
If I'm responsible enough to take a taxi home after having a couple of drinks, I shouldn't be penalized for it, particularly if it's in a relatively empty lot on a Saturday night.
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Correct/update the voting lists
My 2 adult sons have not lived at our address for at least 7 years and yet both remain on the Waterloo voters list. I tried to rectify this when my wife and I voted this past week but the person in charge of the polling station had no concrete ideas on how to correct the list and told us that her adult daughter, no longer living with her, was also on the list and received a voting slip at her actual address in Kitchener as well. So, anyone in the latter situation could vote twice in different municipal elections.…
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Give newcomers a chance to learn about the by-laws before hitting them with fines.
I returned from China Canada to live in Waterloo on the 6th of August. A couple of days later my wife and I received parking tickets for leaving our vehicles on the road outside our driveway overnight. We had no idea that such a by-law existed. After visiting the City, I was told that, despite the fact there are no signs on our street, there are signs posted at key entry points to the city. Unfortunately, I entered the city at night after arriving on an overnight flight from China and was not alert enough to notice these signs. Apparently…
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Grind up waste prior to putting into the landfill
Is there some sort of equipment that could grind up waste prior to placing it into the landfill in order to extend the life of the landfill?
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Please create a Waterloo 311
Toronto has an awesome service: a website + hotline where you can submit questions and non-emergency service requests. Such as reporting graffiti, fallen trees, broken roads and more.
Toronto 311: http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=86d3ba2ae8b1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
There's a large dead rat in uptown that I walk by every day and I have no idea who to report it to for cleanup.
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Put the elections on Pingstreet where to vote and how to vote and have pingstreet for kitchener
elections are coming up and would like to see candidate information and where to vote.
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Use SSL encryption for parking tickets payments.
Secure Online Payment is misleading.
I just tried paying one online using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers and all the communication goes in plain text. I had to stop at the point where it was asking for my credit card number and forcing HTTPS on the link does not work because there is no trusted certificate associated with the website.
I hope that not too many people have transmitted their credit card information in clear using your website.1 vote -
maintain the lawns and greenspace at the John Harper Branch of the Library
Have you seen it? Have you seen the plethora of allergy-inducing weeds and other noxious plants that surround the library? Please clean it up.
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Fix your website links - they take you in circles
Links are not up to date or provide relevant informstion
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Casino email
In Waterloo, officials are getting public feedback by phone and email. A dedicated email address has been set up to gather comments and councillors have also heard personally from constituents.
Feedback so far indicates there’s little interest in the casino, let alone a referendum, councillors say.
“I have not received one email in favour of the casino,” Coun. Scott Witmer said. “I’ve heard from a very broad sector of the public, from younger people to people with school-aged children to seniors.”
I thought that the dedicated survey site was our only method of providing feedback about the casino. I know…
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8 votes
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$1.85 exta for paying online is a cheap move to earn more money.
$1.85 exta for paying online is a cheap move to earn more money. When the offender is ready to pay the charges, why would you suck last bit from his pocket. This is ridiculous. This is 2012, everything is online and FREE why can this service not be free? Cheap move ever!
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Update the 'Uptown Map'...
The 'Uptown Map' has the St.Louis Adult Learning Centre mentioned...it has been closed for almost 6 years. Surely the staff at City Hall read the Chronicle, right? Why list it on the map when there is no reason for anyone to go there?
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Cycling clubs
Not sure why we'd have a category under organizations/clubs specific to cycling. Cycling clubs (which there is 1) would ideally register under sport & Rec clubs. If we single out cycling -then other groups may want a separate heading.
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Assistance
considering you have not launched yet, would you be able to change the phone number under Assistance Programs - Every Kid Counts from 519-741-2229 to 519-741-2200x7229? Many of the phone numbers in City of Kit. have now changed.
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4 votes
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Parent Resour
I would suggest adding Children & Youth Clubs to the Parent and Resource category of Clubs or Organizations OR add a Children & Youth club as an additional category.
1 vote
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