US - NYC transit strike begins with 2 commuter lines

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NYC transit strike

begins with 2 commuter lines

Monday,

December 19, 2005; Posted: 7:42

a.m. EST (12:42 GMT)

 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Commuters who depend on two private bus

lines were forced to find their own way home after drivers walked off the job

early Monday, a predicament that could soon paralyze the entire city if the

transit strike widens.

The walkout at the two Queens bus lines came as the

Transport Workers Union continued to threaten a large-scale strike beginning

after midnight Tuesday that could affect as many as 7 million subway and bus

commuters.

" It is a little unsettling to be the first wave, "

said union officer George Jennings, representing bus maintenance workers.

" It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on

Christmas. "

After making little progress during the weekend, the union

and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority briefly negotiated Sunday

afternoon in a midtown Manhattan hotel, but the talks were " not in the final analysis fruitful, "

the MTA's chief negotiator said.

" The MTA is quite concerned that we are now down to the

last day before the union-imposed deadline, " MTA negotiator Gary

Dellaverson said, referring to the plans for a citywide strike.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his weekly radio address Sunday,

called a possible strike " reprehensible " and said it would drain $400

million a day from the economy.

Shortly after the strike at the Jamaica Buses Inc. and

Triboro Coach Corp. bus lines began at 12:01 a.m., taxi and livery cabs circled a Jackson Heights transit hub looking for

fares.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/nyc.transit.ap/index.html

 

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