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Re: A VERY Lost A Train!

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Apr 13 15:53:37 2014, in response to Re: A VERY Lost A Train!, posted by Train Dude on Sat Apr 12 20:51:52 2014.

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The strike occurred because of the policies of Abe Beame

This is true but only in a very general sense. As Controller, Beame held the TA's purse strings, but ultimately it was Mayor Wagener with whom the TWU had its grievance. Beame, as (then) City Controller, was not seen as the devil-in-the-details during the strike, because in the public mind, it was Wagner, later Lindsay, versus Quill. In the same way, the modern-day strike was seen as Toussaint versus Bloomberg, even though the MTA had long since become a city-state compact, with the Governor presiding over it.



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