Thank goodness there will be no New Jersey Transit strike was averted with a tentative settlement announced this evening. I have to think back to some transit strikes of the past:
- January 1, 1966 - John Lindsay had just become Mayor of NYC while the flamboyant Michael Quill led the Transport Workers Union to a very bitter strike. It was in the dead of winter as commuters had to make other arrangements. I was a student at Forest Hill High School at the time.
- April 1 1980 - I was living in Queens at the time and commuted to Schering in Bloomfield, NJ. On the first day of the strike I woke up at 4 AM and waited for the Q60 bus which was running since it was a private bus at that time. I couldn't get on the bus, but somebody in a car picked me up and left me off near the PATH on 33rd Street. I then made it into work. I stayed with a colleague in Ridgewood, NJ until the weekend. I went home and then during the second week I drove to Maplewood, NJ and stayed with another colleague until the strike ended. That was bad.
- December 20, 2005 - this was described in Bruce's Journal. I was working at NJIT at the time and took a few vacation days. Thankfully this strike was short.
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