{"id":139,"date":"2003-11-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63c315e3-adee-4996-97ac-5389eb0056ad"},"modified":"2012-12-17T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:08:13","slug":"transit-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Transit strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Letter to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The strike of MTC maintenance workers is a terrible hardship for many people, but is it really necessary to limit service to a few hours daily and none on weekends? After all, it isn&#8217;t the bus drivers who are striking; it&#8217;s the people who service the buses and metro. Surely management personnel can fuel up and check the oil levels on buses during a strike; having unwashed buses on the road may be unpleasant but beats having no buses; oil changes and other periodic maintenance requirements would apply to only a percentage of the buses at any given time; major breakdowns should be relatively rare (unless there&#8217;s vandalism or the maintenance workers have not been doing a good job prior to the strike).<\/p>\n<p>I see no reason why the transit authority can&#8217;t provide levels close to full service for at least the first few days of a strike. As maintenance work accumulates, some buses will be forced out of service, but this should affect only the frequency of service, not the overall hours of operation.<\/p>\n<p>Is there something going on that we haven&#8217;t been told about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette. The strike of MTC maintenance workers is a terrible hardship for many people, but is it really necessary to limit service to a few hours daily and none on weekends? After all, it isn&#8217;t the bus drivers who are striking; it&#8217;s the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}