The London Tube strike I witnessed while living there in 2002 was similarly chaotic to that of New York’s right now, but they share a sense of calm, if not resigned despair. Like waiting in line at the DMV. The sheer pandemonium the media might like to envision for the situation is absent, just frustration, lines, traffic. Yet people are suffering, patients are going without treatment, I’m sure backed-up ambulances have caused deaths. I work from home, so it’s undoubtedly unfair of me to talk about how it affects while others are suffering through a very difficult moment in New York history. But I did find one quote rather poignant; asks Queens resident Brunilda Ayala, 57, “How can you give a raise to a bus driver who would make three old ladies walk home in the cold?”

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