New York City transit workers are on strike this morning, and buses and subways are at a standstill. All around town, New Yorkers are dusting off their maps, pulling on their hiking boots, and devising creative new ways to get to work.

[Listen to the show at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/12202005]

Impasse!

Beth Fertig, WNYC Reporter
and
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
and
Richard Hake, WNYC Reporter
and
Rob Snyder, director of the journalism and media studies program at Rutgers University-Newark, and author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories(Rutgers, 1998)
and
Noah Budnick, programs director of Transportation Alternatives
and
Andrew Jacobs, New York Times reporter,
and
Wilma Consul, WNYC Reporter