{"id":3016,"date":"2008-04-17T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/17\/ttc-strike-deadline-issued-for-monday-morning\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:13:34","slug":"ttc-strike-deadline-issued-for-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/17\/ttc-strike-deadline-issued-for-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC strike deadline issued for Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/55\/106118695_906556fd8a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/415567\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Toronto Transit Commission drivers and operators will not report for work starting at 4 a.m. on Monday unless a deal is reached by Sunday afternoon, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 president Bob Kinnear said this morning. If there&#8217;s no contract agreement by 4 p.m. Sunday, he said, the union will begin notifying its 8,900 members that they are on strike.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Following the strike deadline announcement, the City has <a href=\"http:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/inter\/it\/newsrel.nsf\/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e\/a4252ae80f5180dc8525742e006b5b26?OpenDocument\">released its contingency plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this plan, the city is reminding motorists of their responsibility to pull to the right for emergency vehicles (already the law) and to watch for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>It has also announced that the following streets where parking will be prohibited between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday to Friday, with no exceptions. Most of these are supposed to aid emergency vehicles, and many are near hospitals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avenue Road\/University Avenue, Lawrence to Front<\/li>\n<li>Bloor Street\/Danforth Avenue, Jane to Victoria Park<\/li>\n<li>The entire length of Yonge Street<\/li>\n<li>Eglinton Avenue, Allen Road to Brentcliffe<\/li>\n<li>Bayview Avenue, Eglinton to Lawrence<span> (leading to Sunnybrook Hospital)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Finch Avenue, Highway 400 to Jane<\/li>\n<li>McCowan Road, Eglinton to Ellesmere<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Avenue, Markham to Brimley<\/li>\n<li>The Queensway, Roncesvalles to Parkside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be some measures to assist carpoolers and cyclists. The transit-only lanes on Eglinton, Fleet, King and Pape will be opened up to cars or vans with three or more persons. Curb lanes on Bay (Queen&#8217;s Quay to Yorkville), Queen&#8217;s Quay (in the gap between the Martin Goodman trail on the east by Yonge and the bike lanes at Spadina), and Dundas (River to Broadview) will be designated for bicycles only.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, these contingency measures will not be required and transit will roll on Monday as usual.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/photo71\/\">photo71<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Toronto Transit Commission drivers and operators will not report for work starting at 4 a.m. on Monday unless a deal is reached by Sunday afternoon, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 president Bob Kinnear said this morning. If there&#8217;s no contract agreement by 4 p.m. Sunday, he said, the union will begin<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/17\/ttc-strike-deadline-issued-for-monday-morning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;TTC strike deadline issued for Monday morning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8690,2349,8741,370,1813,475,316,5880,341,1577,1560,4213,397],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-amalgamated-transit-union-local-113","tag-bob-kinnear","tag-fleet","tag-king","tag-martin-goodman-trail","tag-president","tag-queen","tag-sunnybrook-hospital","tag-toronto-star","tag-toronto-transit-commission","tag-university-avenue","tag-victoria-park","tag-yorkville"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TTC strike deadline issued for Monday morning - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/17\/ttc-strike-deadline-issued-for-monday-morning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TTC strike deadline issued for Monday morning - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Toronto Star: Toronto Transit Commission drivers and operators will not report for work starting at 4 a.m. on Monday unless a deal is reached by Sunday afternoon, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 president Bob Kinnear said this morning. 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