Everton Dixon

• Prioritize active transportation improvements during routine resurfacing
• Focus improvements around schools, transit corridors, and commercial areas
• Guarantee year-round accessibility by funding direct municipal winter maintenance for sidewalks and transit stops

1. Use transit to shape land use
2. Prioritize lower-cost or incremental transit improvements
3. Prioritize expanding coverage area
4. Prioritize maximizing operational efficiency
5. Invest in rapid transit to anchor growth

Yes, sidewalks should be cleared alongside roads as part of regular winter maintenance

Yes, for specific groups

Would you like to provide any additional context for your views on transportation?candidate's own words

Transportation is fundamentally an economic equity and safety issue. Sidewalks and transit connections must be treated as essential municipal infrastructure every month of the year. Instead of allowing the City and Region to use the two-tier structure to pass the buck on winter maintenance, Kitchener can take immediate ownership of the problem. By creating a municipal Peer Employment program, the city can directly hire unhoused and underemployed residents to keep transit stops, crosswalks, and high-pedestrian footpaths clear of snow and ice. This simultaneously solves winter transit accessibility for seniors and people with mobility devices while putting immediate, low-barrier earned income into the hands of our vulnerable neighbours. Transportation, housing, and local labour cannot be treated in silos; they must work together to build working class security.

If you selected "Yes, for specific groups" above, which groups?candidate's own words

Seniors (ex. extend Older Adult Day Pass pilot), Low-income residents, Youth (age 12 and under)

Please describe one criterion or principle that should not be compromised when making transit investment decisions.candidate's own words

Transit investments must ensure that the workers, youth, and seniors on fixed incomes who depend on public transit every single day are not priced out by private land speculation along transit corridors. Capital investments in transit must always be paired with municipal land banking to secure permanently affordable workforce housing along those routes, ensuring transit remains an engine for working class mobility rather than gentrification. While major infrastructure has long-term value, rapid transit without ground-level affordability protections fuels land speculation and inflates rents for existing residents.

Other priority not listed abovecandidate's own words

Guaranteed municipal winter maintenance on sidewalks and transit stops so working-class riders, parents with strollers, and seniors are not stranded by ice and snow during winter months.

Please name one specific street, corridor, or project where you would prioritize these changes.candidate's own words

I will have to pick the The Victoria Street North corridor connecting Kitchener Central Station eastward through Ward 10. This is our primary multi-modal transit hub linking the ION, GO transit, and local bus routes with key residential neighborhoods and major employment zones. Prioritizing active transportation upgrades, safer pedestrian crossings, and guaranteed winter maintenance along this corridor directly protects shift workers, students, and seniors who rely on daily transit access.