Sick Transit so We Dusted Down Our Sneakers

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WOMEN in sneakers and business suits are back. The trend that started in 1980 was revived this week with the first New York bus- and-subway strike in 25 years. As eight million of us carpooled, Rollerbladed or set off walking to work in five-degree temperatures, Modells, the sportswear chain, hung out signs declaring "Transit Strike Special Sneakers, 25 per cent off !"

Unlike their counterparts in London, transit workers here occupy a special place only a notch below police and firemen. There are more than 33,000 of them, and among the outer boroughs where most of them live, they are viewed as mainstays of the neighbourhood and accorded

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Sick Transit so We Dusted Down Our Sneakers

much more respect than their London counterparts.

In the only two previous strikes in the transit workers' hist...

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