Roads will remain a priority for Mayor Don Atchison in 2015.

Taxpayers made it clear that they want streets and bridges maintained. Last year, Atchison said the city spent $53 million last year to work on 200 kilometres of road

It will do similar amount of work this year.

"We continue to hear from people on a regular basis and they want to talk about roads, back alleys, sidewalks. So if that's what the public believes are one of their priorities, then we need to address that," he said in an interview on Saskatoon Morning.

Atchison touched on a number of other subjects.

Transit

"I'm truly hoping that we'll get to a contract. When you talk about the lack of buses, while the lockout was on, we purchased ten new buses."

River Landing

"They're still working on it. The problem is, every day it gets more expensive to build, so hopefully they'll come up with a strategy or have some partners with them that will be able to bring it to the finish line."

But will it happen in 2015?

"It would be nice to see 2015, I think that would be difficult at this time."

Parking

"We really need parking garages, but parking garages need to be built on the perimeter of the downtown, not in the middle … I'd rather have people park their vehicles on the periphery of the downtown and walk in."

Property taxes

"If you want better roads, if you want police, if you want fire, you want transit, you want all these things … we're going to continue to look for ways on how to at least hold the line."