New York Transit back on track

A man reads a local newspaper with the headlines referring to the transit strike on the subway in New York December 23, 2005. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)

James Estrin/The New York Times. On the first morning rush hour after the strike Camille Towns, left, took her daughter Daniqua Towns to school before going to work.

Jennifer Szymaszek/Associated Press. A subway conductor looks out from his car Friday morning as the transit system resumed service.

The New York Times reports, in "Grudging Praise for an Absent System," that people at least for the next couple days, have a greater appreciation for the New York area transit system, in particular the subway.

Striking transit workers picket outside a bus depot in midtown Manhattan in New York on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005 as they wait for their union's executive board to consider a deal for workers to 'take steps' to go back to work while the union and the transit authority resume negotiations. The strike, the system's first in 25 years, halted service for millions. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

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