Gothamist: Counting Down to a Transit Negotiations Deadline With Us!

Kojak

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:54:25 -0500

I have two finals tomorrow. If there is a strike and I can't get to school, I have to take them in January. That would suck since I was planning on forgetting everything I learned this past year in a drunken orgy this coming weekend. I hope theres a deal on the table soon, for the good of the city.

P.SLUGS

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:56:00 -0500

I CANT WAIT IL GO HIT SOME TUNNELS IN PEACE =0)

Kevin Walsh

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:33:04 -0500

>>>I'll be somewhat disappointed, and we'll have wasted a lot of time getting excited about using the VPN and learning how to hotsynch our Treos. I know what 'tokens' are, but I have no idea what that means. www.forgotten-ny.com

Alana Post

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:22:59 -0500

My workplace (located conveniently a block from the Grand Hyatt) has been planning so obsessively for the possibility of a strike that if there's a resolution, I'll be somewhat disappointed, and we'll have wasted a lot of time getting excited about using the VPN and learning how to hotsynch our Treos.

jordan

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:17:03 -0500

25 minutes until the deadline and increasing?

Larry Littlefield

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:24:34 -0500

I actually believe that if they do strike for two weeks, penalties are enforced, and as a result there is no strike for 25 years, that will be less damaging to the city than getting threatened every two years or so. After all, neither landlords nor transit workers can extort servitude from people who drive and own their homes, which is why many people left the cities to begin with.

Stupid TWU

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:23:31 -0500

See, the TWU member in charge of that is too lazy to even come up with new instructions.

gwong

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:13:04 -0500

"The T.A. will be warned not to send additional reserves of tokens." Sounds like they just took the 2002 instructions and re-used them.

Al Cyone

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:54:37 -0500

According to the TWU blog, "The T.A. will be warned not to send additional reserves of tokens." What are "tokens"???

tien

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:31:08 -0500

regarding what happens if you're on a train (from the TWU blog): All scheduled runs up to 12:01 a.m. will be operated. All runs scheduled to leave a home terminal or other terminal up to and including 12:01 a.m. shall COMPLETE THE TRIP and then return to the home terminal DARK where the trains shall be laid up. All trains are to be secured properly in the yards and lay-up tracks before the crews go out on strike.

greg

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:21:02 -0500

I see a lot of people who I think could use the exercise of walking to work. If the workers are so unhappy, why don't they quit? Oops! No one else will pay them as much or give them such a cushy pension plan. Be thankful for what you got boys...I know a bunch of people who'd gladly take your job of your hands.

MT

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:20:49 -0500

Phew! You scared me for a second there. ;-)

hmm

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:16:14 -0500

So let's say you're in a tunnel on the 6 at midnight. What would they do, pull into the next station and shut the train down there? Or would they complete the run?

Jen Chung

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:14:35 -0500

The script on the left is working... I'll check the script in the post (it looked ok in preview). Thanks, MT.

MT

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:10:52 -0500

I thought we had until midnight. The transit strike clock says they're striking in less than 2 hours.