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06 January 2027
This event began 01/06/2025 and repeats every year forever
The Cellist states something few state, London has no toll to get into the city so when they did congestion pricing that was the first toll into London. New York City is full of tolls.
And the comparisons to Singapore which is a wealthy city state, or stocklhom which is the only city in a low populace country full of natural resources, are dysfunctional to new York city which is the largest city in a country with over three hundred million people.
And Oren Barzilay admitted that EMS workers live in shelters, they are not on welfare, but they don't make enough to live outside the shelters.
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What are my points?
1) no two places in humanity are financially the same. Applying governmental policy to two different places will never yield the same result.
2) the true financial condition of cities isn't in mayor's speeches or investments in stadiums. It is in the quality of life to the lowest wage workers. Eric Adams suggest New York City is financially flying high, then if so why not pay the emergency medical service workers more? why not make congestion pricing void for them? You claim to have money earned but you don't use it , can only mean you are hoarding it. when governments do that, it means illegal money transactions in the bureaucracy.
Congestion pricing and the Broadway community
By Roberto Araujo New York City
PUBLISHED 2:18 PM ET Dec. 30, 2024
Broadway musician Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf plays the cello in the Broadway musical “The Great Gatsby."
She drives into Midtown Manhattan from her home in Hartsdale, New York.
“We lived in Inwood before we bought this house, and we spent, the idea was to be able to take the Metro-North, which we did up until the pandemic. We always took the train,” Dorman-Phaneuf said.
“But then in the pandemic, the trains home went away and they still haven’t come back. So even though I wish we could be taking the train, on a weekday, there were just, there’s a train at 10:30, and then there’s a train at 11:44. So if we get done at 10:35 at work, the next train is 11:44, and that means I’d get home at 12:40,” she said. "And that's just untenable, you know, to have to wait an hour for a train."
In a statement, the MTA said, “Schedules are based on current ridership data of more than 200,000 daily riders who use Metro-North. As Metro-North’s ridership continues to grow, the railroad is constantly monitoring ridership patterns and trends to see what future adjustments may be necessary.”
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community
official link
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community?cid=share_clip
Drivers react to day one of congestion pricing
By Noorulain Khawaja Manhattan
PUBLISHED 2:14 PM ET Jan. 05, 2025
Some New Yorkers thoughts to Congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/drivers-react-to-day-one-of-congestion-pricing
The Port Authority tolls will increase alongside congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/port-authority-tolls-increase-alongside-start-of-congestion-pricing
Local EMS union encourages workers to request reassignment out of congestion relief zone
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
Heather Fordham
Jan 3, 2025, 10:30 PM
Updated 2 days ago
The local union that represents the city's EMS and paramedics is now encouraging their members assigned to stations in the congestion relief zone to request reassignments.
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
The union represents 4,100 emergency medical technicians and paramedics that travel from all parts of the city — and even outside of the state, to be on the city's front lines.
Under congestion pricing, those who live outside of 60th Street in Manhattan will have to pay a toll beginning at $9 for cars during peak periods in order to get to stations located in downtown Manhattan.
Union president Oren Barzilay said Friday while they fought for exemptions and discounts at public hearings, ultimately, they were not included in the groups eligible.
"My men and woman, they live in their cars, they live in their families or friends' houses. They sleep on couches, they sleep at stations because they can't afford to go back and forth every day. This will more than likely be the nail in the coffin, they will likely resign, or demand to be transferred to another station," Barzilay said.
Barzilay did not have an exact number, but said some workers have already submitted reassignment forms and they expect the number to increase once the toll goes into effect on Jan. 5.
“Mark my words, it will likely have a large, negative impact on public safety that will soon enough lead to a rush by Albany and City Hall’s countless and well-paid government funded spin doctors to point the blame and fingers at each other, as they always do. Actions speak louder than words and this tax is a lose-lose for the FDNY EMS and public safety,” Barzilay added.
https://brooklyn.news12.com/local-ems-union-encourages-workers-to-request-reassignment-out-of-congestion-relief-zone
IN AMENDMENT
murders in NYC
375 in 2024
390 in 2023
shootings in NYC
1091 in 2024
1150 in 2023
New York Ctiy has ten million people , ten percent is one million, one percent is one hundred thousand. a tenth of one percent is ten thousand. a hundredth of one percent is one thousand
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06 January 2027
This event began 01/06/2026 and repeats every year forever
The following is the first dialog to the USA's 250 year anniversary and it goes back to my elemental issues with alot of the discourse. The USA is over three hundred and fifty million people. who are not friends or allies, not from accident, based on the erratic or dysfunctional way the peoples of the USA were molded together in the first place.
The ancestors to the modern indigenous never wanted the USA to be. This is why those of them who were able to fight in majority fought against the creation of the USA as well as supported a reclaiming of the USA by the english empire during the war of 1812.,
The ancestors to the modern Descended of enslaved never wanted the USA to be. This is why those of them who were able to fight in majority fought against the creation of the USA as well as supported a reclaiming of the USA by the english empire in the war of 1812.
The ancestors to the modern descendend of White european colonist were split. Half wanted to stay in the english empire. Most fiscally wealthy members never fought at all. The Signers of the declaration were all fiscally wealthy but most of their peers never fought at all.
The continuous waves of immigrants, legally or illegally, enslaved or freely, from anywhere on earth, each had to deal with being rejected/abused/enslaved/harmed by those already in the usa until the violence was quelled by whatever means and they had to be accepted as part of the usa fabric by those in the usa enslaving/abusing/harming them.
So the peoples in the USA are a chaotic gumbo, where the parts never melt into each other but stick out all over the place making a foul smelling stew.
But people in the usa, starting with those of white european descent keep speaking of their wants, their particular subpopulaces wants as if all the other subpopulaces in the usa are supposed to be guided by white european desires.
And so looking back at two hundred and fifty years of USA history becomes very negative by default because all communities have to deal with realities that they spit on in modernity.
The only thing potentially positive about the USA for all in it is tomorrow, not the past, not the present, never the past, never the present.
But in honoring 250 years, the whole point is honoring the past or the present, which is not positive for all.
COMMENT TO ME
@richardmurrayaalbcassist7279 the mention of how the Indians weren't consulted during the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris is the most telling of all. He did a very good job telling of the Revolutionary War as the first Civil War... and actually does a great job setting the stage for WHY there would be a second (not slavery) but the constant deference to all things black and Indian was laughably biased and tiresome. There is a reason 99.9% of WWII material does not talk about North Africa or the Italy campaign, even if it factually did happen and did end in countless lives lost.
MY REPLY
@ralphalf5897 ok it is 2026, the usa will be 250 years old, in under a years time. Many peoples will speak of the USA governments history. Many narratives will be presented. None will be universally liked or accepted. I repeat, NONE will be UNIVERSALLY liked or accepted. The question is what would had satisfied you? I like Ken Burns 2025 what I call American Rebellion series. Others like his commonly called 2026 American Revolution series. So, those who liked the series are content. But for those that didn't care for it, like yourself, the question is, what needed to happen to shut up your complaints? Now, was the program my ideal? no. I think the time simply isn't enough. You have to cut out from anything you want to talk about with only twelve hours. I wanted more about the indigenous peoples, more about the french and germans, more about the loyalists. I even wanted more about the signers of the declaration. But, the time meant cuts had to be made. Even if Burns had decided to do as your comment suggest and talk only about the white men who owned black people, the fifty six signed of the declaration. With six days , two hours each day, that is twelve hours. Now fifty six delegates signed the declaration of independence so that leaves twelve minutes per delegate for the time in the show. This doesn't consider handling the time line of events, like before the rebelion, during the rebellion, after the rebellion. Again, to your pleasure, if only the signers are discussed , the show will not include any non white europeans or those not of white european descent or females. So if Burns had given twelve minutes to each signers of the declaration would that had made you content? yes or no? For the record, I would despise that format, but I would accept it positively. History telling always has biases, positive or negative. ANyone who doesn't know that is immature. The history books most like have the positive biases we want, the history books most don't like have the negative biases we don't want. The reason why most history is written poorly is merely from the negative biases of the people who wrote it, it is that simple.
The AMERICAN REVOLUTION SERIES, TRANSCRIPTED IF YOU CANT VIEW
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/587-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-1/
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/588-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-2/
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/589-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-3/
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/590-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-4/
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/591-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-5/
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/592-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-6/
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