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Extra, Extra - The Transit Strike Edition
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Jen Chung
Published Dec 20, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Published Dec 20, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Internationl Transport Workers Union is anti-strike and wants the workers to get back on the job
- Begging people to give them a lift? Yes, it's the bizarro world and it's called transit strike driver desperation
- A NY Sun editorial calls for the MTA to cease being a monopoly - and for the politicians to get out of the picture because they suck
- People on Vespas are finding it easy to get around during the strike
- Nice local color from Newsday's Transit Strike Blog
- Mayor Bloomberg dressed casually for his walk across the Brooklyn Bridge this morning, but did he walk back tonight? Is he even staying at the OEM tonight?
- And Encyclopedia Hanasiana explains what Ms. Subways is thinking
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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