Gothamist: City Launches Its Transit Strike Contigency Website

Adam

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:53:11 -0500

The head of the Union should be jailed for the chaos he's caused when the MTA contract offer was perfectly good.

Larry Littlefield

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:33:06 -0500

I'm on the side of the people without the deals, and have been out of college for 22 years. I was on the side of the people without the deals then, too. Essentially, some people try to go through life contributing more than they receive, while others try to end life with a "profit" by imposing a "loss" on others. If being in the former category makes one stupid and a socialist, in your view, perhaps we simply do not share the same frame of reference. My advice -- you shouldn't have kids.

cheesmo

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:20:01 -0500

Larry, as a stupid socialist, you should be on the side of the union. Make up your mind where you stand and remember college is behind you and its time to grow up.

Larry Littlefield

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:31:21 -0500

I wonder if transit workers will be paid during a strike, even as the working poor (who generally lack both pension plans and health insurance) and the young (who are increasingly slotted to be freelancers without a retirement plan or health insurance) are not paid because they cannot get to work. By "paid," I don't just mean cash pay. I mean non-cash pay, like health insurance for workers and retirees, and pensions. Will health insurance be cut off for two days for every day of the strike? If not, they are getting paid while the less well off are not. It is the presence of these benefits that place transit workers amoung the minor rich in our society, but because it isn't cash pay they can see, they don't appreciate it. The fact that the minor rich and the major rich already have a secure retirement and health insurance, and aren't worried about the rest, is one reason we don't have a national health care finance system, and are running a huge budget deficit that is undermining social security, the only retirement half of all private-sector workers have. Remember, two types of people are getting richer -- the retired, especially public employees, and top executives. Everyone else is gettting poorer. It is a matter of power, not a free marketplace with reciprocity. Remember that if transit workers continue to be paid while striking.

MT

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:22:30 -0500

Whatever happened to all those fast ferries? At one point there were two services going from St George into various points in Manhattan. Or maybe they could expand a route on NY Waterways.

dirtgirl

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:56:16 -0500

MT - extra ferry service would be great, but I don't think the city has extra boats lying around to call into action every 20 years or so.

Toby

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:46:08 -0500

The $4 in the city Metro-North and LIRR fare is a good idea, however banning bikes is not, as it would make sense to ride between the train station and your orgin/destination.

MT

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:00:56 -0500

It would be an AMAZING help if the city created ferry service for the duration of the strike from the Staten Island Ferry terminal to midtown. It would certainly be far less of a hardship to walk from 1st or 12th Ave to midtown than from lower Manhattan. I wish someone had thought of it.

cyclist

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:25:18 -0500

Will Bloomberg stop arresting cyclists now?