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July 06, 2005

BART strike averted

A strike on BART was narrowly averted when negotiators settled their differences at 2:50am this morning. Employees will get seven percent pay raises over the next four years, and an agreement was reached on the sharing of health care costs.

BART workers walked off the job in 1997, causing traffic nightmares. I wonder if the American Dream Coalition considered the awful traffic that BART's closure caused when it gleefully gave BART a grade of F, citing "declining or flat" long-term ridership...

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