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re: MTA demands $750,000 for NY Marathon to continue using their bridge
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:29 am to Ingeniero
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.
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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 8:35 am to HeadSlash
Sounds like the Superdome charging the LHSAA $250K to host the football state championships.
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.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:38 am to el Gaucho
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You also have to consider the carbon footprint of a million people vs an ev using the bridge
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:45 am to Sao
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The NYCM spectator spending brings in 8 figures in revenue and is a cash cow.
And Jean Paul really hosed now.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:48 am to el Gaucho
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You also have to consider the carbon footprint of a million people vs an ev using the bridge
Especially when those runners are breathing harder. Which means more CO2 coming out of them than normal.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:59 am to Bestbank Tiger
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Especially when those runners are breathing harder. Which means more CO2 coming out of them than normal
Also increased droplets which spreads Covid
Posted on 4/3/24 at 9:03 am to Ingeniero
Mafia shakedown
Posted on 4/3/24 at 9:38 am to Aubie Spr96
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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.
That is cheap compared to what we've had to pay for booths in Nashville, Houston & Vegas
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