When the trains and buses stopped running

11/10/2022 34 min
When the trains and buses stopped running

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Episode Synopsis

It's the week of Christmas in 2005 when the seemingly unthinkable happens: the subways and buses stop running. Transportation workers went on strike and New Yorkers woke up to a very different landscape. Pat Kiernan looks back at this unique time in the Big Apple — before working from home was the norm — and dives into how the city reacted.