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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/20/2005 at 9:31:29 AM ET
Thinking of you folks in NY today--what are you doing to get to work/school/play??
|  Sister Rose
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5/4/2004
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NYC | posted: 12/20/2005 at 10:00:11 AM ET
I'm at my desk. I live about 2 miles from my office and fortunately the sun is shining, although the air is cold. Going home will be a bit more of a drag. It's my colleagues who live in other boroughs that are having the tough time.
|  moljul
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| posted: 12/20/2005 at 11:50:00 AM ET
I'm at home taking a vacation day and hoping its a one day strike. Yeah right!  I have to go to work tomorrow as I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon and no other vacation days to use. It will be over an hour's walk in the cold but I'll bundle up and survive.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| futuremamarose87
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5/3/2004 | posted: 12/20/2005 at 5:36:07 PM ET
I live on campus at Pace Univ. so I have been in the building all day. My in-class final was cancelled tonight so she sent us an at-home final instead.
So, I'm working on that and getting ready to go home- hopefully that won't be very hard. I am leaving through Port Authority (if I ever get there) on Thursday.
I've been doing laundry and will be looking online to buy gifts because I can't go anywhere to shop.
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
|  GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 12/20/2005 at 7:07:29 PM ET
it took me three hours to get downtown for an exam!!! it is craziness.
| Sister Rose
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5/4/2004
From:
NYC | posted: 12/20/2005 at 9:00:24 PM ET
Transit strike = forced exercise.
Did you hear that a judge ruled the TWU will being fined a $1 million a day? Its so unfair to riders...but on ther other hand, there is some pretty unfair treatment to the workers.
Girls - leave PLENTY of time before your travel time 
| moljul
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| posted: 12/21/2005 at 11:05:39 AM ET
Well I made it in today just fine. I was very buddled up, had the long underwear on under my pants and made myself a huge mug of Hot Chocolate to carry with me. And I ended up getting to work being very overheated. It wasn't until I got my iPod out of my pocket that I realized how cold it was because the metal of my iPod was FREEZING! Though I'm sure without the sun on my walk home (and no hot chocolate) that I will be feeling the weather a bit more.
Sister Rose, I'm not sure who to support either. The contract seems like a fair one but I know last time the workers averted a strike by accepting little or no raises and about a month later the MTA had this multi-million dollar surplus. The MTA is very poorly run and is always raising fares or threatening to raise fairs because they are supposedly going broke and then after they raise the fares they find this huge surplus. I think the current one was over $1 billion. And then they tried to sell the rail yards for the West Side Stadium for a fraction of what it was worth. So I have absolutely no trust for the MTA. It's a dilemma.
Jean, LOVE THE NEW AVATAR!
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| moljul
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| posted: 12/21/2005 at 12:14:10 PM ET
Just passing on info I just read online. The Union President is saying that the only reason they voted to go on strike was the pension offer the MTA gave them. It changed it from an employee contribution of 2 percent to 6 percent. They were happy with the raises and other items in the offer. He says if the MTA takes the Pension offer off the table, the workers will return to work. I guess I can understand that. To most people a hike of 4 percent of your salary is a big jump and pretty much eats up any raise you might have received.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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