NYC transit strike? PLEASE COMPLAIN HERE:- Page 5

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 7:57pm

I just find the NYC subway system really hard to follow. Like you don't know if the train is an express or not untill it's too late which happend to my parents and I one time. Which is while I like Boston's which I have understood since I was five there are no express trains.

But I am sending good thoughts to everyone who has to take a train or bus in NYC to get to work.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 8:11pm

To Gotham

Welcome to NYC politics. Toussant says the MTA is not bargaining in good faith & yet his goons are yelling & screaming strike outside . He says the MTA has a plantation mentality. The other day they stopped traffic on a main throughfare & when a cabbie got out & complained he was interfering with his livelihood, an MTA worker told him to get back inside or he would have the crap beat out of him. So much for free speech. Sounds like the Brownshirts in Nazi Germany stifling speech

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:48pm

This is really going to happen, isn't it? gah 1:12 to go.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:51pm

I can't believe they're not going to come to some sort of resolution...

[Marlene]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:01pm

There's mention that a 9% increase over three years has been place on the table...but we're still waiting on a decision.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:02pm

I have a concert on Staten Island on Saturday and was planning on taking a bus into Port Authority from Pennsylvania, hop a subway to the Ferry and take it across but I don't think that will be able to happen. The taxi situation is going to be CRAZY and I HIGHLY doubt that the man in charge of the concert is going to let me get out of it.
I am SO frustrated right now trying to figure out HOW I am going to get to Staten Island and (more importantly) how I'm going to get back to Pennsylvania.

[Marlene]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:04pm

The LIRR and NJ transit is still running...does that get you to the ferry?

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:10pm

The only bus anywhere near me only stops at Port Authority, and something happened to my car here in PA while I was in college (in NY) and I came home to find out that I have no vehicle and that all other family vehicles will not be availible that day (and I won't drive a friend's car).

Anyone know if LIRR can get me near the Ferry?

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:12pm

Pretty sure it doesn't go south of 34th/Penn Station. You could take the PATH, it goes all the way downtown, I think.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:18pm

Will the PATH be running though?

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:25pm

Yes, PATH will still be running.

http://wcbs880.com/topstories/local_story_347152715.html

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:26pm

Luckily I can still get where I need to go by rerouting a bit. I think I will head in late tomorrow night rather than try to do it early Saturday, just to be safe. I am glad I am getting on a plane Saturday. Surely this won't last long.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 12:51am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10466982/

So I don't get it. The deadline passed, but we still don't know what's going on?

[bythesword84]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 12:54am

They're negotiating beyond the deadline. All that means to me is when I get up tomorrow I'll know if I'll be late making it to my final exam or not.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:09pm

The Lexington Avenue line is a complete joke.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:24pm

Pataki should get on tv and say "If you subway workers strike, it is against the law. You will be fired and will not be able to collect unemployment." A union should not be able to hold the city captive as they are doing.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:36pm

How much is the fine that each employee is supposed to pay per day that they are on strike?

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:39pm

According to Taylor, it's 2 days' salary, but according to what Bloomie wants (and I am SOO WITH HIM), it's $25,000 the first day, to double each additional day.

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:52pm

I say that we as New Yorkers get to put all of the transit workers and the MTA board into Madison Square Garden and we get to chuck apples at their heads for about 4 hours.

That would make me feel SO MUCH BETTER.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:55pm

Works for me.

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:58pm

Don't waste good fruit. Make it ROAD apples.

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:59pm

There is no one to root for in this skirmish but ourselves!!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:59pm

rob-BEE rob-BEE rob-BEE!!!!!!

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:05pm

I think WE should call a news conference! I'll get to that podium and give Heston's 'Cold Dead Hand' speech a run for its money!!!

Can we make this happen???

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:07pm

Addy might be able to set it up.