The last one was, I think, about 10 days. This may be longer; so far as I know, no talks are even scheduled. SEPTA (the transit authority) made what it thought was a generous offer out of the box, and the union just blew it off as inadequate.
The train car fire could have been really serious, but fortunately turned into one of life's near misses. )I wasn't there, but I got the following facts from the media, transit workers, and other third-party sources). The train was full, but the passengers and conductors smelled smoke, and the conductors hustled everyone off the affected car into the other cars just before the nick of time. After the fire started, they evacuated the rest of the train. However, the strikers wouldn't take the stranded commuters the rest of the way into the City by bus (it's the workers who man the buses, trolleys and subways who are striking), so about 500 people had to fend for themselves. Some of them walked the six miles (or so from the affected station) into Philadelphia.
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The train car fire could have been really serious, but fortunately turned into one of life's near misses. )I wasn't there, but I got the following facts from the media, transit workers, and other third-party sources). The train was full, but the passengers and conductors smelled smoke, and the conductors hustled everyone off the affected car into the other cars just before the nick of time. After the fire started, they evacuated the rest of the train. However, the strikers wouldn't take the stranded commuters the rest of the way into the City by bus (it's the workers who man the buses, trolleys and subways who are striking), so about 500 people had to fend for themselves. Some of them walked the six miles (or so from the affected station) into Philadelphia.