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SEPTA strike news
Is frustration prolonging the strike?
Of the three big shot pols who set out to help mediate this strike, only congressman Bob Brady has not thus far left on bad terms.
Is there really a deal?
A spokesman for the TWU said that a press conference this afternoon will not include an announcement of a final deal between the union and SEPTA.
 
Eagles to open lots early if transit strike is still on
The Eagles estimate that about 20 percent of their fans use mass transit to get to Lincoln Financial Field, so if last night's tentative SEPTA proposal is not ratified today or transit operations are not resumed in time, parking for tomorrow's 8:20 p.m. game against the Cowboys could be challenging. Fans are encouraged to carpool. If there is no SEPTA resolution, lots will open at 1 p.m. tomorrow. *
Why is accurate strike info so hard to come by?
Strike fiscal impact hard to measure
Ben Waxman: I've started wondering about the SEPTA strike's fiscal impact on Philly's troubled city budget. I asked Uri Monson from the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority.
SEPTA union: Strike will continue
Rendell: Nutter's tone may be an issue, but he deserves no blame for strike
Will City Go To Court To Get SEPTA Back to Work?
Friday -- SEPTA Strike Drags On
Media: Stop getting our hopes up for an end to the SEPTA strike!
Arguments for and against the TWU
SEPTA's Money
 
Transit strike lesson: Learn to drive a bus
As I stood in line waiting for my train home for more than an hour Tuesday night, I debated whether the SEPTA union president had lost his mind, or whether I should get a job driving a bus.
SEPTA: R5 fire not sabotage
Calling it the "catastrophe that wasn't," SEPTA officials said the fire that engulfed a R5 Paoli train car packed with passengers this morning was in no way suspicious or criminal.
How to prevent the next SEPTA strike
Brown: Nutter "cut out" of future negotiations; SEPTA's offer not good enough
Cranky commuters
Even bicyclists were hemmed in by gridlock on the first day of the city's SEPTA strike. Commuters gritted their teeth and chose any means available to make due without public transit when the unexpected strike broke in the predawn hours yesterday.
Some in suburbs hit hard by SEPTA strike
The SEPTA strike didn't just wreak havoc in Philadelphia yesterday. It also stranded and frustrated city residents trying to reach jobs in the suburbs or get back, and worried some businesses that rely on reverse commuters.
 
SEPTA strikes, then and now
The last time SEPTA workers took to the picket lines was 2005. Here's a comparison of the key points: OBSTACLES
Tens of thousands of students affected by SEPTA strike
more than 58,000 Philadelphia students who use SEPTA to get to and from school were asleep when transit workers walked off the job in the wee hours of the morning yesterday.
SEPTA: We didn't mess up the pension fund
Thrown under the bus
Bikers, walkers, drivers forced to get along during strike
One side effect - or side-of-the-road effect - of the SEPTA strike seems to be a surge in bike-riders on Center City streets.
Nutter talks tough on SEPTA strike
DN: Gee, thanks, TWU!
The strike, Day Two
Thanks to the Center City traffic this morning, there was plenty of time to ponder what should be done about the strike by Transport Workers Union Local 234, which is largely the cause of all the Center City traffic this morning.
Pension $ seen as ticket to end SEPTA picket
NEGOTIATIONS between SEPTA and Transport Workers Union Local 234 could resume as early as today, possibly ending a strike that left hundreds of thousands of commuters without transportation to work and school.
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