Tuesday, December 20, 2005

7 Million Friends & Neighbors, Hoofing It

The crawling text along the bottom of NY1 – NY's 24-hour local news channel – says The Transit Strike is On. The Transit Strike is On. The Transit Strike is On.

I will now walk 27 (short) blocks to go take a final exam in Contracts. Millions and millions of people commuting into Manhattan will walk much, much farther.

Also, it's currently 22 degrees.

Merry Christmas!

1 comment:

Andy said...

It took 30 minutes — not anywhere near the longest time it's taken me to get to school by subway.

At 96th street, NYPD was making sure that each vehicle entering mid-Manhattan had at least 4 occupants. Traffic was non-existent (@ 7 am) south of the checkpoint, but it was backed up for at least 20 blocks above the checkpoint.