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Friday, April 8, 2011

More on the T&I Stakeholders Meetings: The Advocates Edition

Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, went right after Millar but took a more combative tone. Recent transit cuts – the deepest since World War Two – are “unconscionable” and further cuts would be “a criminal act against the people of our cities,” he said, threatening people’s ability to get to work in the midst of an economic crisis. Janitors sometimes have to stay in the buildings they clean for hours after their shifts end to wait for the next bus, he said.

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/04/01/more-on-the-ti-stakeholders-meetings-the-allies-and-advocates-edition/ 

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