ilovejesus
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That is exactly where it looks like this slippery slope is heading.Right on track to tax people for breathing
After passing congestion pricing, NY's MTA wants to charge the NYC Marathon organizers to use the bridges.
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Officials want NYC Marathon organizers to pay $750K to cross the Verrazzano bridge
The New York City Marathon might soon have to pay a toll to cross the bridge, just like every other commuter
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And they want more than that..every penny...Strong armed robbery is what the MTA is trying to do.
Well, they also run over the 59th Street Bridge as well so when that toll activates, they need to add the cost of that also.
I guess you'd also agree those 5th Avenue parades should pay also ... since they're blocking that soon to be toll road and that would also cause them to lose revenue.
In Chicago, if they have an event where the parking meters on the street are blocked off or inaccessible and cars can’t park there, the City has to pay the private company that owns all of the cities parking meters the lost revenue from cars not being able to park there. The City charges a fee to whatever organization is responsible for shutting down the parking spots if it’s for an event, so it just like the MTA is doing the same thing that’s been happening here for over a decade.
WaveCapsByOscorp™
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more shyttier, here comes New York motherfukking shytty with another tax
Wait so they been shutting down the bridge for that bull shyt and not charging before?
So a whole city gets inconvenienced and the city don't recoup by taxing?
WTF?
roads and bridges aren't subsidized completely by gas tax, every residents taxes pays for them for them whether they drive or not. runners shouldn't be taxed for using the bridge for a single event.
jilla82
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Big government is the answer right?
In Chicago, if they have an event where the parking meters on the street are blocked off or inaccessible and cars can’t park there, the City has to pay the private company that owns all of the cities parking meters the lost revenue from cars not being able to park there. The City charges a fee to whatever organization is responsible for shutting down the parking spots if it’s for an event, so it just like the MTA is doing the same thing that’s been happening here for over a decade.
Why doesn't the city of Chicago operate the meters? Why do they have to contract it out?Back in 2008 when the recession hit, the mayor didn’t want to raise property taxes or fire teachers to plug the budget hole. So he worked with JP Morgan bank and Katten firm to sell all the parking meters on a 100 Year long lease, to an anonymous investment company that was formed in Abu Dhabi called Chicago Parking Meters LLC, for $1billion. It got approved by pretty much all the alderman and alderwomen, even though they didn’t do any research on it. This is after they sold one of the tollways for a few hundred million to fill another budget hole earlier.
The sale went through, the city budget got balanced for the rest of the mayors term, and the LLC immediately tripled the price of street parking from $2 to $6, made all their money back in 5 years, and the mayor that made the deal went to go work for the firm that put it together.
And the Llc still has like another 85 years left of getting all the parking revenue. People got together with law firms in the City and tried to sue to get out of it but all the judges basically said “The deal isn’t illegal, your officials just made a really dumb deal that screwed the citizens over. Deal with it.“
It’s one of the worst governmental business transactions in history.
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Good fukk the marathons. Make shyt harder to travel.
KnowledgeOfSelf17
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Damn, I was just thinking to myself. This move from NY smells like some Chicago level of fukkery.In Chicago, if they have an event where the parking meters on the street are blocked off or inaccessible and cars can’t park there, the City has to pay the private company that owns all of the cities parking meters the lost revenue from cars not being able to park there. The City charges a fee to whatever organization is responsible for shutting down the parking spots if it’s for an event, so it just like the MTA is doing the same thing that’s been happening here for over a decade.
Y'all got the most out landish corruption in the US next to LA and here in NY
KnowledgeOfSelf17
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Captain Crunch
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Back in 2008 when the recession hit, the mayor didn’t want to raise property taxes or fire teachers to plug the budget hole. So he worked with JP Morgan bank and Katten firm to sell all the parking meters on a 100 Year long lease, to an anonymous investment company that was formed in Abu Dhabi called Chicago Parking Meters LLC, for $1billion. It got approved by pretty much all the alderman and alderwomen, even though they didn’t do any research on it. This is after they sold one of the tollways for a few hundred million to fill another budget hole earlier.
The sale went through, the city budget got balanced for the rest of the mayors term, and the LLC immediately tripled the price of street parking from $2 to $6, made all their money back in 5 years, and the mayor that made the deal went to go work for the firm that put it together.
And the Llc still has like another 85 years left of getting all the parking revenue. People got together with law firms in the City and tried to sue to get out of it but all the judges basically said “The deal isn’t illegal, your officials just made a really dumb deal that screwed the citizens over. Deal with it.“
It’s one of the worst governmental business transactions in history.
chicago could heavily reduce the value of those parking spots by massively improving public transportation.