My strike story. I've had to walk 9.5 miles in two days

And I still support the transit workers!



UNION YES.

But www.sportbrain.com doesn't have the cool geo stuff.

I walk to work every day and would love to figure out exactly how far it is!


http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/658010

It's good to see that some New Yorkers here put the integrity of workers and their hard-won benefits above their own personal comfort. I salute you. Solidarity forever!

I'd be in the same boat if the metro drivers went on strike here in DC.
Stay strong- remember that you not crossing the picket line means a lot to those workers.
And the exercise is good too!

If I lived in NYC, I'd walk with you!

and I well remember getting up an hour and a half early so I could do the hike to work and get there in time. I supported the strike then, and I support it now.

Antiunion people always miss one important point: nobody wants a strike, especially the workers. Consider they are facing public resentment as well as going without pay during the holiday season.

Put the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of one of the most corrupt management systems in the country, the MTA.

SOLIDARITY!

in negotiation. How about a law that takes away the right to discharge?

:yourock:

Way to go supporting the Union.

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support it now.) I lived in the Village in '66; walked daily from Sullivan Street and West Third Street to my office at Sixth Avenue and 54th Street -- and back. (O to be in such good shape today.)

Remember vividly TWU head Michael Quill responding to the stop-strike injunction: "The judge can drop dead in his black robes."

SOLIDARITY!

Now you are telling me that this is special...My view of the ambulatory superiority of denisons of Gotham is ruined forever!!!!!

many times more in the course of their normal daily affairs than any other Americans; don't remember the specific numbers, though based on my own experience (working there during the '60s and the '80s) I would say the norm is at least a mile a day. Long hikes though are usually reserved for the weekends. :)

than most of us. And I'll admit some of "us" don't walk much. But I thought 3-4 miles a day was not uncommon for a NY'er.

Remember he had to wear a pedometer so he wouldn't walk more than the average american. Once he went over the limit he had to get in a cab. I think it was something like 1.5 miles compared to 3-4 miles.

On the avenues, it's 20 street blocks to the mile: in other words, from West 4th Street to West 24th Street up/down Sixth Avenue is exactly a mile. Don't remember the distance of the (cross-town) avenue blocks: seems to me though it is a third of a mile, in other words from Lexington to Sixth (Lex-Madison-Fifth-Sixth) would be a mile. When I lived in Chelsea later in the '60s and 1970, I did calculate it once: I figured I walked at least a mile a day catching the trains to and from work, then maybe a couple miles more on the nights I walked down to the Village to the Lion's Head, more still when I walked over to the Lower East Side to Stanley's.

times a day and then maybe one at night. And Viola! You've got a three mile day.

we are both wrong. From that scale I'd say six avenue blocks to the mile. (Probably seemed twice as far to me because in those days I was so often walking back across town half in the bag.) :)

"Nobody Walks in L.A." by Missing Persons

Look ahead as we fast try to focus on it
I won't be fooled by a cheap cinematic trick
It must have been just a cardboard cut out of a man
Top forty cast off from the record stand

Walking in LA
Walking in LA
Nobody walks in LA
Walking in LA
Walkin in LA
Nobody walks in LA

I don't know could have been a lame jogger maybe
or someone just about to do the freeway strangler baby
Shopping cart pusher or maybe someone groovy
One things for sure he isn't starrin in a movie coz he's

Walking in LA
Walking in LA
Nobody walks in LA
Walking in LA
Walkin in LA
Nobody walks in LA

You won't see a cop walkin on the beat
You only see him drivin cars on the street
You won't see a kid walkin home from school
Their mothers pick them up in a car pool

Walking in LA
Walking in LA
Nobody walks in LA
Walking in LA
Walkin in LA
Nobody walks in LA

Could it be the smog's playing tricks on my eyes
Or it's a rollerskater in some kind of headphone disguise
Maybe somebody who just ran out of gas
Makin his way back to the pumps the best way he can

Walking in LA
Walking in LA
Nobody walks in LA
Walking in LA
Walkin in LA
Nobody walks in LA

:hug: I support them too! Go UNIONS!

... hang in there - good job!

and you have good health and don't have to drag kids around.

No details, just that it's over and trains will be running today sometime.

We have some serious heavyweights around these parts and Ive noticed when they show a shot of NYers walking on the streets you rarely see a really heavy person. I guess its because you guys walk everywhere,and thats a good thing imo.

Anyway I hope the Union gets what they want. Go Union

NYC. It's not for the weak.

Except tourists. Too high in cholesterol.

It's been cold, too.

Bloomberg called the strikers a bunch of thugs


While he sits back in his billion dollar home and gets anything he wants, including buying his way into being mayor.

God, I hope the TWers still get their benefits and pensions.

Will they?

Sue

Bloomberg comments calling the strikers selfish, thuggish, criminals will not be forgotten.

You really want every step credited, don't you?

That calculation came from GMAPS pedometer... I just did a screen shot.

You probably knew that tho... it's amazing how far people will go to be snarky assholes.

I just thought it was taking it to insignificant digits. Me, I would have rounded up to the nearest thousandth mile.

I had to go 20 blocks (at 5:30 a.m.) for my pick up, so I took a livery car. And I do support the union. Their working conditions -- exposure to communicable diseases (including TB), asbestos brake parts, steel dust, lack of rest rooms, fractured schedules -- are terrible, so they earn their money.

I hope it also demonstrated to some the need for some orgnization on a community level so the elderly, disabled and poor don't get left behind when these things happen.

After you've lived here for a while, coping becomes almost second nature, doesn't it?

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:
I applaud your accomplishment and your attitude!!!

This strike has meaning nationwide for those who expect a pension from thier empolyer.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=180619&mesg_id=180619

i walk from port authority to and from work.

it's even more if i forget to pack a lunch.

the subway is for wimps.

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You made my day.

:woohoo: