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Should the province play a role in encouraging safer streets that promote more active transportation like walking and cycling?
Responses to the question: "Should the province play a role in encouraging safer streets that promote more active transportation like walking and cycling?"
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15 Candidate Responses (top)
| Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale | ||
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| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Barry Spruce | No | The province has limited direct impact on the Safer Street concepts, other than enacting new laws that would reduce driving speeds. driver distraction etc. The municipality has more direct impact on this matter, as it provides the policing and parking authority to manage the day to day in the city. |
| Raymond Dartsch | Yes | It should! And play less of a role promoting freeways and automobiles like it has for the past 100 years.
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| Ted McMeekin | Yes | Yes, and Ontario's Cycling Strategy looks ahead 20 years and outlines what needs to be done to promote cycling across the province as a viable mode of transportation.
More and more people are choosing cycling as their preferred way to get around. Ontario's Cycling Strategy provides a route map to support and encourage this growth in cycling over the next 20 years. Increasing the number of cyclists in Ontario holds many potential long-term benefits. Ontario's Cycling Strategy supports Ontarians adopting healthier and active lifestyles, the tourism industry, as well as the achievement of environmental and economic objectives. The province will play a leadership role in striving to achieve our cycling vision, but we are asking municipalities, the public, road users, businesses and non-governmental organizations to partner with us to create a more cycling-friendly future for Ontario. For more information on our government's cycling strategy, visit http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/cycling-guide/pdfs/MTO-CycleON-EN.pdf |
| Hamilton Centre | ||
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Bob Mann | Yes | Yes. We need Municipal/Provincial studies and programs to create pedestrian and cycling friendly residential areas. This could be accomplished in many ways but would have to suit the demographics of each particular town or city. |
| Donna Tiqui-Shebib | Yes | I think everyone has an important part to play to encourage safe transportation options like walking and cycling - from various levels of government, to drivers, to cyclists and pedestrians. For our part, the Ontario Liberals are committed to implementing CycleOn, the province's first-ever cycling strategy - something I think will benefit cycling advocacy groups such as Yes We
Cannon with their consultations with City Council. We will also provide funding to municipalities for up to 400 new kilometres of dedicated bike lanes, and we will build 135 kilometres of paved shoulders on provincial roads and highways. To support safer cycling, we will introduce legislation to mandate that vehicles give one metre of space to cyclists when passing. |
| John Vail | Maybe | Thanks for the questions but in my opinion they are better directed to municipal candidates as the questions relate directly to municipal issues and not to provincial issues which are jobs, the provincial economy, the provincial deficit, provincial debt reduction, and lower provincial taxes |
| Peter Ormond | Yes | The province can be providing funds for Ontario cities to develop active transport infrastructure. Imagine the city with a network of walking, hiking and biking paths. In Ottawa, Colonel Bye drive is closed every Sunday morning and is packed with cyclists. Hamilton can follow suit easily.
Hamilton has Open Streets, and the Super Crawl. When I was a child we used to close Spruceside Ave for street dances. It's time to make these simple community-building activities more accessible. And speaking of accessible, mass transit will be a wonderful mechanism to get seniors, families and those with special needs to move efficiently from A to B. Plus it will remove vehicles from the roads and make access by active transport safer and more available to others. |
| Hamilton East-Stoney Creek | ||
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Paul Miller | Yes | The Ontario NDP believes that the province has a responsibility to help make roads safer for all Ontarians. We have committed $5 million to expand cycling infrastructure networks and support complete street design. |
| Hamilton Mountain | ||
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Greg Lenko | Yes | Yes - The province should be providing funds for Ontario cities to develop a more effective infrastructure inclusive to everyone. Doing so will create stronger communities, reduce healthcare costs and increase the success of local businesses. |
| Hans Wienhold | No | This is a dishonest question. It's like asking you if you still beat your wife.
Before answering, therefore I would like to translate the question into what is really being asked. "Do you support the coninuing war against the ownership and use of the private automobile by a massive campaign of road strangulation, two-way streets, proliferation of stop-signs and stop-lights and wasteful reallocation of useful road space in favour of bike lanes for crackheads?" No. I do not support the war on the private automobile. It is driven by the deep envirocommunist wish to reverse the fantastically successful capitalist model which has brought previously unimaginable improvements in the standard of living to millions of ordinary people. |
| Monique Taylor | Yes | Yes. The Ontario NDP believes that the province has a responsibility to help make roads safer for all Ontarians. We have committed $5 million to expand cycling infrastructure networks and support complete street design.
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| Niagara West-Glanbrook | ||
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Basia Krzyzanowski | Yes | The province can be providing funds for Ontario cities to develop active transport infrastructure. Imagine the city with a network of walking, hiking and biking paths. In Ottawa, Colonel Bye drive is closed every Sunday morning and is packed with cyclists. Hamilton can follow suit easily.
Hamilton has Open Streets, and the Super Crawl. When I was a child we used to close Spruceside Ave for street dances. It's time to make these simple community-building activities more accessible. And speaking of accessible, mass transit will be a wonderful mechanism to get seniors, families and those with special needs to move efficiently from A to B. Plus it will remove vehicles from the roads and make access by active transport safer and more available to others. |
| Geoff Peacock | Maybe | In this election, Freedom Party candidates are focused on
two things: restoring trust in government by balancing the budget without massive job cuts, and restoring affordable electricity by pulling the plug on already-existing, over-priced, Liberal green energy deals (without a penalty). Our position is that there should be no new spending unless and until the budget is balanced. You may consider this my reply to all of the questions in your questionnaire. |
| Stefanos Keratopis | No | My answer to all of these questions are no. However, that does not mean these things should not be done. I just do not think government should be doing them. I am opposed to all forms of government monopolies.
With the province having a $295 Billion debt is it really a smart thing to commit itself to large scale projects and more massive spending and more unsustainable tax increases? We need to reduce the size of government, sell off all government monopolies such as the LCBO/OLG and use that money to reduce the provincial debt, invest in restoring Ontarians freedoms and get government out of the way of business and REMOVE ALL red tape so they can create jobs. Please visit https://libertarian.on.ca/platform to see our current platform. Vote Libertarian Party, The Party Of Choice. |
| Tim Hudak | Maybe | Thank you very much for your letter. We appreciate the opportunity to listen to your priorities for Ontario. We share your commitment to Ontario's future and believe that with more and better jobs, we can do what's necessary to bring about the change Ontario needs.
I'm excited about our Million Jobs Plan-a plan to bring jobs back to Ontario, stop overspending, balance the budget and keep our debt from growing. Our plan relies on the notion that government should be smaller, but what it does, it does better. Our priorities for this election can be found at www.millionjobsplan.com We need to face our challenges honestly and compassionately. It won't be easy, but it can be done and it will be worth it. I know we can build a previously unimagined Ontario, but it's going to take some courage and a willingness to challenge the failed status quo. That's what our Ontario PC Million Jobs Plan delivers. We are asking government to tighten its belt, the way everyday Ontarians have, so that one million men and women out of work will have a shot at solid, good-paying jobs. We've got a job to do. It's time to get Ontario working better. |
Response Summary (top)
| Brief Response | Count | % of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 9 | 60.0% |
| No | 3 | 20.0% |
| Maybe | 3 | 20.0% |
15 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)
| Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alex Johnstone | ||
| Donna Skelly | ||
| Glenn Langton | ||
| Hamilton Centre | ||
| Andrea Horwath | ||
| Peter Melanson | ||
| Hamilton East-Stoney Creek | ||
| Britney Anne Johnston | ||
| David Brown | ||
| Greg Zink | ||
| Ivan Luksic | ||
| Mark Burnison | ||
| Hamilton Mountain | ||
| Albert Marshall | ||
| Brian Goodwin | ||
| Javid Mirza | ||
| Niagara West-Glanbrook | ||
| Brian McCormack | ||
| David Mossey | ||
