SF Bay Area trains run as strike talks drag on
Source: AP-Excite
By TERRY COLLINS
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - San Francisco Bay area commuters will see transit trains running as usual Thursday morning after the two sides in long-running labor contract talks agreed to keep meeting, forestalling a major strike yet again.
In a message to hundreds of thousands of anxious commuters, a federal mediator said that the transit system will continue to run Thursday as unions and management agree to keep talking.
"Negotiations are continuing under our auspices. Progress is being made," mediator George Cohen said in an email press statement late Wednesday night. "Trains will be running all day tomorrow,"
Commuters are getting used to such announcements - they've endured seven strike deadlines, sometimes staying up past midnight waiting to hear if the trains will run in the morning..
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A Bay Area Rapid Transit train leaves the station Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. A recipe for gridlock was brewing in the San Francisco Bay Area, as two of the region's major transit agencies teetered on the brink of commute-crippling strikes. While talks between the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and its unions to avoid the second walk-off in four months were set to resume on Tuesday, workers at a major regional bus line said they would go on strike in 72 hours. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)