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com by Oct 16, 2013. Candidate Name: Bob Bowles What ward or position you are running in/for: Ward 6 Councillor

Mobility:
1. Given that 77% of trips (Statistics Canada, Commuting

to Work 2013) are currently made by car in Calgary, do you believe it is City Halls job to [Please circle]:
a. Set targets to change peoples commuter behavior

around the city and encourage more transit, walking and biking? Or
b. To support the choice of Calgarians to use their

automobiles while also improving accessibility to other methods of transportation. I support both
2. The recent Tom Tom Index found that in Calgary,

congestion adds 27 minutes of additional travel time in a 30 minute commute. What are you going to do to help decrease this lost personal time for Calgarians? I have commuted in this city from the deep south to downtown. I have also walked/cycled from our previous home in West Hillhurst to downtown and taken both a car and the LRT to downtown from our current home in Montreux. Most major problems have to do with accidents (usually from inattention) and construction.

We all need to slow down, show some courtesy and we need to road work in the evenings and at night.

Affordability:
1. According to the Fraser Institute, property taxes have

increased by 31% over the past 3 years.

Do you agree with this figure? Yes/No Yes and our fees for service like water, sewer and garbage as well as electricity have gone up as well. Call it what you want but fees in other cities are taxes.

2. If No, what do you believe this increase to be?

3. Over the next four years, what is your personal objective

in terms of tax increases? Specify a percentage amount I want a four year freeze on increases of all fees and taxes.

4. What regulations and red tape will you eliminate to reduce

the regulatory burden on Calgarys residents and businesses? We need to adopt best practices that other cities have when it comes to this area. We dont need to reinvent the wheel, just make it rounder so it goes faster and smoother.

5. The 2013 $52 million surplus was directed for flood

reconstruction efforts. Many Calgarians have different views on how to use this. What do you believe is the best use for the 2014 $52 million surplus? a)Put money into Public Transit b)Give money back to taxpayers c) Use money for flood reconstruction efforts d)Pay down debt e)Other (please write your response): 54% of taxpayers responded to the citys own poll, I mean public engagement, saying they wanted the money back. I would do what they asked and give it back to the taxpayers.

Safety:
1. Do you believe that the $470,000 spent on the blue ring

artwork called travelling light could have been better spent on improving light and security on public transit? YES, YES,YES

2. What specific measures would you introduce to improve

personal safety on public transit after dark? Security officers trained with pepper spray. More cameras and lights at stations.

3. What measures would you implement to make

Calgarians safer? Get the 330 police officers on our streets that StatsCan says we should have in the next four years. Worse from that Ward 6 is missing a further 22 officers on our streets. This is according to Back The Blue Police Association

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