BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 4.7.23//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Economic Corner 6 - January 6th 2025  DTSTAMP:20250118T184102Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:142-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n 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. \n\n And the com parisons to Singapore which is a wealthy city state\, or stocklhom which i s 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.\n\n And Oren Barzilay admitted that EM S workers live in shelters\, they are not on welfare\, but they don't make enough to live outside the shelters.\n\n\n\n ...\n\n\n\n What are my poin ts?\n\n\n\n 1) no two places in humanity are financially the same. Applyin g governmental policy to two different places will never yield the same re sult.\n\n\n\n 2) the true financial condition of cities isn't in mayor's s peeches or investments in stadiums. It is in the quality of life to the lo west 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 ear ned but you don't use it \, can only mean you are hoarding it. when govern ments do that\, it means illegal money transactions in the bureaucracy.\n\ n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Congestion pricing and the Broadway community\ n\n By Roberto Araujo New York City\n\n PUBLISHED 2:18 PM ET Dec. 30\, 202 4\n\n\n\n Broadway musician Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf plays the cello in the Br oadway musical “The Great Gatsby.\"\n\n\n\n She drives into Midtown Manh attan from her home in Hartsdale\, New York.\n\n\n\n “We lived in Inwood before we bought this house\, and we spent\, the idea was to be able to t ake the Metro-North\, which we did up until the pandemic. We always took t he train\,” Dorman-Phaneuf said.\n\n\n\n “But then in the pandemic\, t he trains home went away and they still haven’t come back. So even thoug h I wish we could be taking the train\, on a weekday\, there were just\, t here’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.\"\n\n\n\n In a statement\, the MTA s aid\, “Schedules are based on current ridership data of more than 200\,0 00 daily riders who use Metro-North. As Metro-North’s ridership continue s to grow\, the railroad is constantly monitoring ridership patterns and t rends to see what future adjustments may be necessary.” \n\n\n\n https: //ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the- broadway-community\n\n official link\n\n https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/ on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community?cid=shar e_clip\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Drivers react to day one of congestion pricing\n\n By Noorulain Khawaja Manhattan\n\n PUBLISHED 2:14 PM ET Jan. 0 5\, 2025\n\n\n\n Some New Yorkers thoughts to Congestion pricing\n\n https ://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/drivers-react-to-day-one-of-co ngestion-pricing\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The Port Authority tolls will increase alongside congestion pricing\n\n https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/20 25/01/05/port-authority-tolls-increase-alongside-start-of-congestion-prici ng\n\n\n\n \n\n Local EMS union encourages workers to request reassignment out of congestion relief zone\n\n Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.\n\n Heather Fordham\n\ n Jan 3\, 2025\, 10:30 PM\n\n Updated 2 days ago\n\n\n\n The local union t hat represents the city's EMS and paramedics is now encouraging their memb ers assigned to stations in the congestion relief zone to request reassign ments.\n\n Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.\n\n The union represents 4\,100 emergency medi cal 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.\n\n Under congestion pricing\, those who live outside of 60th Street in Manhattan w ill have to pay a toll beginning at $9 for cars during peak periods in ord er to get to stations located in downtown Manhattan.\n\n Union president O ren Barzilay said Friday while they fought for exemptions and discounts at public hearings\, ultimately\, they were not included in the groups eligi ble.\n\n \"My men and woman\, they live in their cars\, they live in their families or friends' houses. They sleep on couches\, they sleep at statio ns because they can't afford to go back and forth every day. This will mor e than likely be the nail in the coffin\, they will likely resign\, or dem and to be transferred to another station\,\" Barzilay said.\n\n Barzilay d id not have an exact number\, but said some workers have already submitted reassignment forms and they expect the number to increase once the toll g oes into effect on Jan. 5.\n\n “Mark my words\, it will likely have a la rge\, negative impact on public safety that will soon enough lead to a rus h by Albany and City Hall’s countless and well-paid government funded sp in doctors to point the blame and fingers at each other\, as they always d o. Actions speak louder than words and this tax is a lose-lose for the FDN Y EMS and public safety\,” Barzilay added.\n\n https://brooklyn.news12.c om/local-ems-union-encourages-workers-to-request-reassignment-out-of-conge stion-relief-zone\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n\n\n murders in NYC\n \n 375 in 2024 \n\n 390 in 2023\n\n shootings in NYC\n\n 1091 in 2024 \n \n 1150 in 2023\n\n\n\n New York Ctiy has ten million people \, ten percen t is one million\, one percent is one hundred thousand. a tenth of one per cent is ten thousand. a hundredth of one percent is one thousand\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Piror Entry \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11402-economic corner005/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n POST URL\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1140 5-economiccorner006/\n\n\n\n PRIOR EDITION\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/ev ents/event/141-economic-corner-5-january-4th-2025 /\n\n\n\n NEXT EDITION\ n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/143-economic-corner-7-january-14 th-2025/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250106 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR