So, despite literal wall-to-wall media coverage, a transit strike has been at least temporarily averted. Last night the newscasters really seemed saddened by the developments. It's like they'd been promised Christmas in the form of this story and then **bam** it was all lost.

The city did spend five million bucks making contingency plans. This weekend there was non-stop coverage of those plans. They were pretty crazy. You were only going to be allowed to cross the river if you had four people in your car. The mayor suggested picking up "urban hitchhikers" if you did have a car. Yellow cabs were going to have to allow, egads, shared rides. The best to me, though, was that the Metro North was erecting a "temporary" station at Yankee Stadium since their tracks go right by it. Umm. Yankee fans have been asking them to put a stop there for, literally, decades.