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Stop Transit?
Stop Transit?

Stop Transit?

Date8/21/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Stop Transit?: Striking CN workers continued picketing GO Transit's repair yards in Mimico today. The pickets persuaded some train crews to book off; forcing cancellation of service for about 10;000 people who normally commute by train.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017386F
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A Frustrated commuter shows her feelings about Metro's transit strike as she sits at a curb by Mt
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Thumbs-down disapproval of Premier William Davis plan to settle the transit strike is expressed by strikers leaving a meeting yesterday in Scarborough
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n to shirtsleeves bargaining, members of the Toronto Transit Commission's negotiating committee met at the Royal York Hotel today before settling into(...)
n to shirtsleeves bargaining, members of the Toronto Transit Commission's negotiating committee met at the Royal York Hotel today before settling into(...)
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First the TTC... now my umbrella, Some days, it pays just to stay home in bed. As if the transit strike wasn't enough to contend with one soggy pedest(...)
First the TTC... now my umbrella, Some days, it pays just to stay home in bed. As if the transit strike wasn't enough to contend with one soggy pedest(...)
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