At around 3am, the MTA and other news sources announced the full transit strike of New York City.
Bloomberg projects costs of $400M per DAY.
CNN tells us "The last citywide bus and subway strike in New York was in 1980. The walkout lasted 11 days."
I think I read somewhere Bloomberg had worked the NYC economy up to a projected year-end surplus of some 2.5 billion dollars.
Well that'll be gone in five or six days.
Really impossible to take sides - of course I instinctively want to side with the worker, but I understand the limitations of the employer too. I'm not even attempting to respond in any kind of intelligent way to the details of the breakdown.
From a perspective somewhat farther back, it seems fantastically unbelievable that it ever got to this point.
Seeing NYC crippled right now, from its own inner workings, is quite disheartening.
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