Who's excited about the NYC transit strike?

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Workplaces will be closed, schools will shut down, anarchy will reign!!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

And bike stores will be doing a bang-up business.

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Will the bangbus be affected?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I ~~love~~ hate how the local news reports this story - and all stories of this nature - covering only the practical consequences of a labor action instead of specifics of the dispute(much less how it fits into the larger national labor picture).

Why not take this approach with news on Iraq? Instead of focusing on the strategic importance of the war, or the gropolitics involved (which they don't, but anyway), they could only report the immediate practical consequences: "Iraqis find driving difficult as dead bodies clog the road" etc

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Bike shoppes will not do well as certain streets will be closed to everything with wheels - including bikes. I learned this from a fitness obsessed coworkers. It means no one but me and the handful of coworkers who live in my building across the street from the office will make it in - yay! I reckon more work will be done that way than ever before.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not going to affect PATH service, is it?

if it isn't, it means i'll have to walk to work ... (the horror!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to walk every day, you lazy bum. Granted it's a block and a half but STILL.

Seriously, doesn't affect PATH or Metronorth from my understanding, just subway, which makes no sense, are they different unions? They're run by the same government agency. I know for a fact that it doesn't affect bus drivers HOWEVER buses will not be allowed on many NYC streets if a subway strike occurs to faciliate emergency vehicles.

Why, I don't know, since Bloomberg is still gung ho on getting rid of something like half the firehouses. WHy faciliate the people you feel are useless?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, doesn't affect PATH or Metronorth from my understanding

cool ... then i don't give a shit (what a very Jersey attitude, but what the hell)

maybe this is God's way of telling me to move down to Philadelphia after all (instead of the insane 3-times-a-week-between-NYC-and-Philly thing i'm doing now)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Any thorts? I'm glad the union was able to flex their muscle and get an improved situation! It's not quite what they were asking for and the "productivity improvement" aspect seems suspicious to me for some reason (maybe because that's the part Bloomberg was most ecstatic about) but I think it's a major victory for the whole concept of unions and labor power, and of strikes as legitimate bargaining tools.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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