Charlie on MBTA. No One on the MTA

The MTA, the one of New York City fame, not of Scollay Under and JP-nickel-exit-fare fame, isn’t running today. Gothamist is liveblogging it. Today they’re all strike, strike, "how'd you get to work?", and more strike. The transit strike in NYC has stolen the headline spot for all national news outlets. Now NYC seems to be trying to cheat Boston out of our nickname “The Walking City” with Mayor Bloomberg himself walking across to Brooklyn Bridge to work this morning.

WBUR produced and nationally syndicated Here and Now (now with added New England focus) has teased the noon broadcast as looking at the MTA transit strike, and what it might mean if you’ve ordered your holiday gifts from a New York company. That's why Bostonist is worried, not for the ecomic reprocussions for those missing a day of work, getting fired for being late, and barely making it by as they're cleaning lobbies in the Upper West Side while living in Queens, it's if our Christmas gifts are going to be late in arrival. Go charge up your CharlieTicket and think how nice it is to have the T, even if it's 20 minutes late.