'It is what it is'
Shuttle bus riders deboard a bus arriving from Howard Beach to Hicksville LIRR station on Monday. Credit: Morgan Campbell
Marty Oster, 60, of Hicksville, said the shuttles had added about an hour to his commute but he wasn't too bothered.
A member of Teamsters Local 282, he understood the difficulties faced by the negotiators.
“You’ve got five different unions trying to negotiate for five unions,” he said before boarding a bus from the Howard Beach-JFK station. “It is what it is.”
Joshua Needelman covers the Town of North Hempstead for Newsday. A Long Island native and University of Maryland graduate, his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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