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Strike!

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

New York City transit workers are on strike this morning, and buses and subways are at a standstill. All around town, New Yorkers are dusting off their maps, pulling on their hiking boots, and devising creative new ways to get to work.

Impasse!

Beth Fertig, WNYC Reporter
and
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
and
Richard Hake, WNYC Reporter
and
Rob Snyder, director of the journalism and media studies program at Rutgers University-Newark, and author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories(Rutgers, 1998)

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About That Subway Alert...

Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter covering City Hall and security issues,
and
E. J. McMahon, senior fellow for tax and budgetary studies at the Manhattan Institute,
and
James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute,
and
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, ...

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The Brooklyn Army Terminal, 8 am today


The line snakes around the block as commuters wait for a ferry to Manhattan

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The Transit Workers Have a Blog

Actually, it's more like a vehicle for press releases, but either way, some poor soul was up at 3:55 am posting to it. twulocal100.blogspot.com

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