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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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    Strike!

    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)
and
Noah Budnick, programs director of transportation alternatives
and
Andrew Jacobs, New York Times reporter,
and
Wilma Consul, WNYC Reporter

» Transportation Alternatives
» "Proselytizer for Pedaling Acts on His Words" by Andrew Jacobs in The New York Times (subscription)

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,
and
Ron Shechtman, attorney at the firm Pryor, Cashman, teaches public sector labor law at New York University Law School,
and
Marian Swerdlow, high school social studies teacher in New York City, former subway conductor, and author, Underground Woman:My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conducto (Temple University Press, 1998)

» E. J. McMahon (The Manhattan Institute)
» The Fiscal Policy Institute
» The Straphangers Campaign
» Ron Shechtman (Pryor Cashman)
» Underground Woman:My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conducto (Temple University Press, 1998)

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