Here’s some background on the standoff between the TWU and the MTA and on what each side is looking for (published last week). The MTA has given some ground since then – they even backed off their demand to increase the retirement age from 55 to 62 – but apparently that’s not good enough for Toussaint.

So, it looks like there’s going to be a New York City transit strike. I guess I’m fortunate that it won’t affect my work commute – the PATH trains to New Jersey are run by the Port Authority, not the MTA, although there may be more people than usual on the PATH tomorrow as people look for alternate ways to travel up Sixth Avenue. Matt, for his part, is totally into this story.

Sigh. For the third time in just over four years (9/11, the blackout, now the strike), we’re going to see people commuting on foot over the Brooklyn Bridge. And I guess we can look forward to stories in the New York Times Styles section next Sunday about romances that bloomed during shared cab rides. (Matt totally stole that from me. I thought of it first.)

How to make a CD holder with origami.