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A Frustrated commuter shows her feelings about Metro's transit strike as she sits at a curb by Mt
A Frustrated commuter shows her feelings about Metro's transit strike as she sits at a curb by Mt

A Frustrated commuter shows her feelings about Metro's transit strike as she sits at a curb by Mt

Date9/11/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: A Frustrated commuter shows her feelings about Metro's transit strike as she sits at a curb by Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Erskine Ave. waiting for a ride downtown. At least the weather was pleasant. Metro's last transit strike in 1974 lasted 23 days.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016967F
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Commuters - many of them new - line up at the GO Transit station on Main St
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The only way to go to work this morning was to drive or hitch a ride as Metro's giant public transit system ground to a halt in the wake of the first (...)
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As progress is made toward settling the transit strike, Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey (left) confers with members of Toronto Transit Commission, (from l(...)
As progress is made toward settling the transit strike, Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey (left) confers with members of Toronto Transit Commission, (from l(...)
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When the go trains aren't going, Port Credit commuters line up for buses pressed into service to replace GO trains, not operating because of the strike of 20,000 railwaymen
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Slow Going: More than 2,000 anxious commuters line up at the Danforth Go station yesterday, hoping to get to work that way as the TTC strike began
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Worth The Wait? A bored commuter, stranded by the TTC strike, joins the line of people waiting yesterday at Union Station for GO trains to take them home
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Metro chairman Paul Godfrey, who is leading the TTC delegation in talks aimed at ending the 11-day-old transit strike, meets with Leonard Moynehan, pr(...)
Metro chairman Paul Godfrey, who is leading the TTC delegation in talks aimed at ending the 11-day-old transit strike, meets with Leonard Moynehan, pr(...)
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Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
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