July 2, 2025 • 5 mins
ABC's Jim Ryan reports that weather has been a big part of these delays affecting a large portion of travelers
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The dust up with this the zoo situation, with the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's just it's funny that the people are upset that
the price of a ticket to the zoo is going
up a dollar because of this issue with the EMS
fire calls.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
So it's called the Protect and Serve fee.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Liberty Township trustees voted to increase the price of a
ticket to the zoo by a dollar. So it's now
going to be like, what thirty six bucks, thirty seven
bucks something like that for you know, non Franklin County residents,
and then you know, Franklin County residents, it's ten dollars cheaper.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Thank goodness, I'm a Franklin County residence. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But the problem is that the zoo is a nonprofit.
They don't pay property taxes. Property taxes fund police and
fire and EMS. So when they go and make the
runs to the zoo and there's a well, in twenty
twenty three, there were eighty seven runs to the Columbus Zoo.
That costs Liberty Township thirty five hundred bucks. Do the math,
(01:03):
it's about three hundred thousand dollars a year. So who's
on the hook for that, Well, Liberty Township taxpayers. That's
not fair, and the zoo is saying, well, we're an
educational nonprofit, we should be exempt from this. Well, except
for you have emergency runs coming to your facility, and
some of them are like exotic runs. It's not just
(01:24):
you know, Grandma is dehydrated and couldn't get past the
penguin exhibit. She needed to take a break and needed
to call the EMS. I mean they cite one instance
where there was a snake bite. You know, the zoo
employee was bitten by a snake, so you had to
call fire and EMS and they're not necessarily trained in
snake bites. No, they had this particular unit has to
(01:49):
be trained in snake bites because you're serving the zoo.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't know many EMS guys or MT guys that
could suck the poison out of your leg and no
it happened.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's not what they're doing, by the way, or not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I know, TV show an old less thing, you know,
put a tournique on it and just suck it out.
Yeah no, no, no, they don't do that. No, I
don't think they did that anymore. Get they get some
bad and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, uh so they like Joe's not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And I guess if you're the zoo, if you were
to say, okay, well then fine, then start paying property tax.
Keep your prices the same, but pray pay property tax.
This is going to go no, no, no, we're good. We'll
we'll go ahead and goose our prices by a dollar.
So I think that's the better end of the deal
for them. And really, if you're a zoo patron, if
you're going to go to the Columbus Zoo, is a
(02:39):
dollar really going to break the bank for you?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I don't depend on that penguin attack you were talking.
I don't think that a dollar is going to make
a difference.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean that's you know, if you're talking, it's going
up ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, you've got my attention. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That makes it a little prohibitive to get to the
zoo for a lot of people. But a dollar, I
don't think is going to hurt to make sure that
you have full access to fire ems should you need it.
So I think it is a story that is sort
of much to do about nothing. All right, A Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. It's ABC's Jim Ryan,
Jim Boy, the travel week got off to a rough
(03:13):
start yesterday with the severe weather in the Philly, New
York d C.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We know the members of Congress were trying to get
back to DC for the big beautiful bill vote, but
for everybody else there was a ton of delays as well.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean, because there is this domino effect, Mike,
you know, you start having delays at Laguardian, JFK and Newark,
and that sort of trickles down to other big hub
airports at the FW in Chicago and Los Angeles. He
starts seeing this ripple and suddenly flights are being delayed
in Dallas because of situations in the Northeast. I mean,
(03:48):
that's how interconnected the entire system is. So sure, hundreds
of flights were delayed or canceled yesterday, So today it's
a matter of catching up. The weather's pretty good for
most parts of the country. They're going to see some
uf down in Florida into the fourth of July. But
suffice it to say that seventy two point two million
Americans plan to travel fifty miles or more from home.
(04:08):
Seventy two point two million. That's going to be a
record for any Independence Day ever, part of it is
just an accident of the calendar. Right, This is the
first time since twenty fourteen that the Fourth of July
falls on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, a lot of folks are taking the whole week off.
Some people will take off several days after. So the
holiday actually started this past Saturday and it extends through
next Sunday, So you've got that full eight day period
that encompasses. So it's not too surprising that you're going
to see that many people on the road and in
(04:44):
the air.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it's a big vacational week, to be sure.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Jim Ryan from ABC and I think I saw that
TRIPAA said today and tomorrow are big travel days, especially
on the roads with people driving to their destinations.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Absolutely, I mean sixty one million people driving and a
lot of those folks deciding.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To hit the road today.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's a two point two percent increase over last year
and the highest volume ever for the Fourth of July.
So now it seems that every holiday lately, Mike, we've
seen these travel records fall, and the fourth of July
will be no different.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And then Sunday is I just forget about it just
because everybody's coming home on Sunday and just stay where
you're heart. Yeah, are you planning on You're in Dallas.
Are you planning on traveling this weekend? No?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Good, good, smart, it's not going anywhere.
The dust up with this the zoo situation, with the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's just it's funny that the people are upset that
the price of a ticket to the zoo is going
up a dollar because of this issue with the EMS
fire calls.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
So it's called the Protect and Serve fee.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Liberty Township trustees voted to increase the price of a
ticket to the zoo by a dollar. So it's now
going to be like, what thirty six bucks, thirty seven
bucks something like that for you know, non Franklin County residents,
and then you know, Franklin County residents, it's ten dollars cheaper.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Thank goodness, I'm a Franklin County residence. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But the problem is that the zoo is a nonprofit.
They don't pay property taxes. Property taxes fund police and
fire and EMS. So when they go and make the
runs to the zoo and there's a well, in twenty
twenty three, there were eighty seven runs to the Columbus Zoo.
That costs Liberty Township thirty five hundred bucks. Do the math,
(01:03):
it's about three hundred thousand dollars a year. So who's
on the hook for that, Well, Liberty Township taxpayers. That's
not fair, and the zoo is saying, well, we're an
educational nonprofit, we should be exempt from this. Well, except
for you have emergency runs coming to your facility, and
some of them are like exotic runs. It's not just
(01:24):
you know, Grandma is dehydrated and couldn't get past the
penguin exhibit. She needed to take a break and needed
to call the EMS. I mean they cite one instance
where there was a snake bite. You know, the zoo
employee was bitten by a snake, so you had to
call fire and EMS and they're not necessarily trained in
snake bites. No, they had this particular unit has to
(01:49):
be trained in snake bites because you're serving the zoo.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't know many EMS guys or MT guys that
could suck the poison out of your leg and no
it happened.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's not what they're doing, by the way, or not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I know, TV show an old less thing, you know,
put a tournique on it and just suck it out.
Yeah no, no, no, they don't do that. No, I
don't think they did that anymore. Get they get some
bad and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, uh so they like Joe's not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And I guess if you're the zoo, if you were
to say, okay, well then fine, then start paying property tax.
Keep your prices the same, but pray pay property tax.
This is going to go no, no, no, we're good. We'll
we'll go ahead and goose our prices by a dollar.
So I think that's the better end of the deal
for them. And really, if you're a zoo patron, if
you're going to go to the Columbus Zoo, is a
(02:39):
dollar really going to break the bank for you?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I don't depend on that penguin attack you were talking.
I don't think that a dollar is going to make
a difference.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean that's you know, if you're talking, it's going
up ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, you've got my attention. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That makes it a little prohibitive to get to the
zoo for a lot of people. But a dollar, I
don't think is going to hurt to make sure that
you have full access to fire ems should you need it.
So I think it is a story that is sort
of much to do about nothing. All right, A Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. It's ABC's Jim Ryan,
Jim Boy, the travel week got off to a rough
(03:13):
start yesterday with the severe weather in the Philly, New
York d C.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We know the members of Congress were trying to get
back to DC for the big beautiful bill vote, but
for everybody else there was a ton of delays as well.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean, because there is this domino effect, Mike,
you know, you start having delays at Laguardian, JFK and Newark,
and that sort of trickles down to other big hub
airports at the FW in Chicago and Los Angeles. He
starts seeing this ripple and suddenly flights are being delayed
in Dallas because of situations in the Northeast. I mean,
(03:48):
that's how interconnected the entire system is. So sure, hundreds
of flights were delayed or canceled yesterday, So today it's
a matter of catching up. The weather's pretty good for
most parts of the country. They're going to see some
uf down in Florida into the fourth of July. But
suffice it to say that seventy two point two million
Americans plan to travel fifty miles or more from home.
(04:08):
Seventy two point two million. That's going to be a
record for any Independence Day ever, part of it is
just an accident of the calendar. Right, This is the
first time since twenty fourteen that the Fourth of July
falls on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, a lot of folks are taking the whole week off.
Some people will take off several days after. So the
holiday actually started this past Saturday and it extends through
next Sunday, So you've got that full eight day period
that encompasses. So it's not too surprising that you're going
to see that many people on the road and in
(04:44):
the air.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it's a big vacational week, to be sure.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Jim Ryan from ABC and I think I saw that
TRIPAA said today and tomorrow are big travel days, especially
on the roads with people driving to their destinations.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Absolutely, I mean sixty one million people driving and a
lot of those folks deciding.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To hit the road today.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's a two point two percent increase over last year
and the highest volume ever for the Fourth of July.
So now it seems that every holiday lately, Mike, we've
seen these travel records fall, and the fourth of July
will be no different.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And then Sunday is I just forget about it just
because everybody's coming home on Sunday and just stay where
you're heart. Yeah, are you planning on You're in Dallas.
Are you planning on traveling this weekend? No?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Good, good, smart, it's not going anywhere.
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