In a message dated 9/11/2001 5:46:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< We were sent home at 10:30 - and Union Station was still open then. I
walked right onto a Metro, and then right onto a bus and made it home in
record time. Count one for public transport. >>
And count one against. It took me four hours to get home to Queens from New
York City this afternoon. No subways, no express buses and no LIRR service.
Thousands of people stranded, and, in a city where the people complain about
everything, no grumbling. Just lots of very stunned, subdued looking
pedestrians. And everything looks like it will be closed here tomorrow, too.
Jon
