Sick Transit

December 22, 2005 – 12:41 am

This transit strike has the city clenched and writhing like a spider stuck by a pin. Businesses are withering, traffic is packed solid from river to river, and municipal and union officials are locked in a snarling impasse, while Gotham’s hapless and frozen workforce staggers to and fro across the city’s bridges in their hundreds of thousands. And all of this four days before Christmas.

New York is rightly renowned for taking such things in stride, but this one is going to get old in a hurry.

Posted by Malcolm on at 12:41 am, filed under General, Politics. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

6 Comments

  1. Kevin Kim says

    So where’s that Latina bus driver, Gloria Mundi? On strike, I suppose…

    Kevin

    Posted December 22, 2005 at 12:58 am | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    Hi Kevin,

    Excellent! Often this blogging business can be like shouting up a drainpipe. Good to know you’re out there…

    Posted December 22, 2005 at 1:32 am | Permalink
  3. Bill Vallicella says

    Very good, Kevin!

    Posted December 22, 2005 at 10:59 pm | Permalink
  4. Malcolm says

    I knew somebody would pick up on that one.

    Posted December 22, 2005 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
  5. Malcolm says

    By the way, Kevin, does your blog allow comments? I didn’t see any way to do so.

    Posted December 23, 2005 at 11:52 am | Permalink
  6. Kevin Kim says

    Malcolm,

    There’s a link to an explanation for how to post comments on my blog’s sidebar. However, my most recent post re: my brief time in Florida is deliberately set not to allow comments.

    Kevin

    Posted December 23, 2005 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

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