Yonge and little is increasingly busy and is a dangerous left turn due to poor visibility of oncoming traffic with a hill there.
Pot hole repair needed in many areas of the city. Essa Rd. is quite bad. Suggestion to close roads and do a pot hole blitz similar to what Toronto is doing.
With increased traffic on Ferndale drive, an advanced green turning left from Ferndale to Edgehill (westbound) would ensure safety of pedestrians and drivers. I believe there is already an advanced green to turn eastbound on a Edgehill, so makes sense to also have it for westbound traffic.
How about a % discount for up front payment of total property taxes due each year?
Some of us can pay our whole muni tax property bill at first billing. how about a 5% break on the tax? would get more $$ in faster?
when city workers are filling pot holes on the streets they should tamp the asphalt down as they are filling or it will not last. Try a little work it won't hurt you.
The Barrie police has a swat team and we pay very heavy taxes towards them! In light of the shootings, the Barrie police need to seriously start cracking down on neo Nazi terrorist activities. Whether it is a yellow vest screaming, some anti abortionists or anti LGBQT “protesters” etc. Hate speech is not free speech and these groups have proven to be violent and are now threatening our democracy. Instead of targeting minorities and innocent people doing day to day things. They should be going after them!
March. 16th at 10:53 dusting of snow and a plow out what a waste of tax payers money this city is terrible for wasting cash just too much spending.
Cities in Europe are experimenting with free transit. They are finding a 125% increase in ridership and minimal tax increases. I think free transit would make Barrie a leading community. And it would be money well spent. Especially when you factor in the cost of installing presto and enforcing fares.
Many waterfront parks have dogs on the property and in the water despite signs prohibiting them. I've seen city workers out in the parks but no one enforcing what's posted on the signs. This creates hazards in our parks and waters, especially for children. Perhaps designate some non-waterfront parks for dogs and their walkers.
All of these bus routes travel to the same quadrant of Barrie and are scheduled to depart from the terminal within a 5-min window. If you could stagger these schedules across a 15-min window, it would reduce waiting times for some passengers at the terminal and provide a more frequent service to that neighbourhood without needing to increase the frequency of any routes.
In an effort to bring some colour and potential livelihood to the downtown scene in Barrie. I am suggesting a mural be painting on the side of the Collier Street parkade.
There is a canadian artist by the name of Ola Volo, she has been all around Canada and made her mark. She brings so much to her pieces that I think she could do one for Barrie people would really appreciate.
Not trying to exclude local talents, but wanted to post the idea in the event that it hasn't been suggested before.
Let's bring some Canadian charm and artistic influence to the face of Barrie for those who are living and visiting here.
Remove beggars from hovering and asking for money in front of night deposit bank machines.
This page on household hazardous waste contains symbols from a mix of HHPS and WHMIS. Household hazardous products should be classified, by law, under HHPS - the WHMIS symbols mixed in here are very misleading.
I have noticed on weekends there is a lot of garbage strewn on the ground in our beautiful waterfront areas and on the rocks by the jetty! Perhaps, the city could invest in more garbage cans, so the existing garbage cans will not be overflowing on a busy weekend: Secondly, perhaps undercover officers could lay polluting charges to the offenders and set a precedence, that polluting on our newly beautified waterfront is frowned upon and illegal. I don't enjoy going to our downtown waterfront on a weekend, as it ticks me off to see how disgusting, lazy, and ignorant people have been, treating our world like its their own personal garbage dump. Cheers, to the hard work the city staff do every Monday cleaning up the mess left.