A fear of gridlock as strike approaches
Katie Rose travels on the LIRR up to three times a week for her job with a beauty company. But her biggest concern with the possible strike isn’t being unable to get into Manhattan. It’s the fear of “gridlock” because of many LIRR passengers who may drive to work.
Rose, 42, of Massapequa Park, visits stores that sells her company’s products, and some are as far as New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
“Getting there will be very bad,” she said Friday evening from Penn Station.
She worries about traffic jams even to go grocery shopping.
Rose’s father worked for the MTA, so she has sympathy for the workers.
“I hope they’re treated fairly,” she said. “Anyone right now needs a raise.”
But, she said, she also sees the MTA’s point about not being able to afford too generous a raise.
“I hope they work it out,” she said.
David Olson covers health care. He has worked at Newsday since 2015 and previously covered immigration, multicultural issues and religion at The Press-Enterprise in Southern California.
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