Peter Pan Wrote:
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> Please go on strike! Please, please, please go on
> strike! Anyone remember the air traffic controller
> strike of the early 80s? Would love to watch a
> strike and subsequent firings. It's the quickest
> way to drain the metro swamp.
It would be fun just to see the chaos that would ensue. Absolute gridlock on all the major arteries into D.C. And the fact that there is not enough parking to handle all the cars that would be coming into the city. This is what it was like in 1974....imagine how it would be today?
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?2,file=338068,filename=477078_652634857746202624_n.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BUS_STRIKE_IN_WASHINGTON,_DISTRICT_OF_COLUMBIA,_DURING_MAY_1974,_RESULTED_IN_250,000_PEOPLE_HAVING_TO_FIND_ALTERNATE..._-_NARA_-_556709.jpg