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MTA demands $750,000 for NY Marathon to continue using their bridge
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:33 am
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:33 am
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The M.T.A. has quietly demanded roughly $750,000 a year from the organization that runs the marathon, to make up for the toll revenue that the authority loses when it closes the Verrazzano — North America’s longest suspension bridge — to vehicular traffic, according to interviews and memos reviewed by The New York Times.
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The dispute pits the M.T.A., whose finances have suffered a post-pandemic commuter decline, against an organization that derives the bulk of its fund-raising from the wildly popular bridge-dependent event — and then uses those funds to support running activities for the rest of the year, many of them free.
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Rob Simmelkjaer, the chief executive of the Road Runners, pleaded his group’s case in a February letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who effectively controls the M.T.A., warning that the start of the marathon was “now in danger.”
Mr. Simmelkjaer pointed out that the marathon was a homegrown institution that draws more than one million spectators and provides substantial economic benefits to New York City.
He also highlighted a certain irony in the M.T.A.’s messaging. Even as the authority has insisted that the marathon is unacceptably costly, it has also praised the race for driving up subway ridership, which boosts the M.T.A.’s fare revenue.
The day after the marathon in November, both the governor and the M.T.A. put out a news release citing those higher ridership numbers: “Marathon runners and spectators alike took the subway to Sunday’s race, accounting for 2,304,683 paid rides, the highest for a Sunday in almost four years,” it read.
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The Road Runners also began paying for personnel costs linked to closing the bridge in 2021. Last year, the group was charged $150,000, the organization
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:35 am to Ingeniero
You also have to consider the carbon footprint of a million people vs an ev using the bridge
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:35 am to Ingeniero
Looks like good old fashioned political extortion to me.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:38 am to Ingeniero
It’s raising $750,000/ day? $275m a year?
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:41 am to Ingeniero
That might cover “overtime” for three MTA managers this year
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:46 am to Ingeniero
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Road Runners “is charging $315 per entry to the marathon in 2024,” Ms. Sheridan wrote in her March email to Mr. Simmelkjaer. “But the marathon sells out irrespective of the entry fee, and you could easily recover proper compensation to the M.T.A. through a slight fee increase, so I’m genuinely confused why you are insisting that less advantaged New Yorkers subsidize the N.Y.R.R. and marathon runners.”
frick these people
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:49 am to Ingeniero
That's 1 or 2 DEI positions the MTA can
downsize
downsize
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:03 am to Ingeniero
If a half million folks come to town to ride the subway, eat the food and stay in the hotels. They are spending a grand each. That’s prob what 110 bucks in taxes plus money directly to the TA. So 2.5 million in fares and 50 million in tax rev.
Yeah. Better shut that shite down
Yeah. Better shut that shite down
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:29 am to Ingeniero
Went with my dad to a trade show in NYC. We had a booth and were setting it up. Part of it had lights and we plugged them in. Some guy comes by and asks us who plugged the lights in. We said that we had done it. He said that they had to be unplugged and a union electrician would be by to set them up for $200 and if we didn't like it we could take the booth down.
shite like that is why I never go to NYC. They can have it.
shite like that is why I never go to NYC. They can have it.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:32 am to Ingeniero
This is why we can't have anything nice, democrats.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:36 am to Ingeniero
Govt now thinks they should be in the money making business. So they take our taxes and build toll roads. Sunpass, peachpass, Express lanes. All not in the interest in serving the population by adding lanes and getting control of traffic. Oh no... not that. It's to now go down a lane or 2 for 'construction' so that people will end up buying the express lanes. More people riding = more money.
I assume it's the same with NYC and their transit. Probably paid for by public taxes and now run like a quasibusiness except it's all take take take from the taxes AND charges. But with bloated govt workforce and pensions. I know it won't ever happen, but I'd love to see the marathon just say, fine we won't use the bridge then so you can frick off. Or even better just relocate it just out of NYC and take all their spending with them.
I assume it's the same with NYC and their transit. Probably paid for by public taxes and now run like a quasibusiness except it's all take take take from the taxes AND charges. But with bloated govt workforce and pensions. I know it won't ever happen, but I'd love to see the marathon just say, fine we won't use the bridge then so you can frick off. Or even better just relocate it just out of NYC and take all their spending with them.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:38 am to Ingeniero
The issue is NY has its income in silos, and while the marathon is a huge money maker for the city, it costs the MTA. Sounds like they need to be sharing the money rather than squeezing the source for more.
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