Transportation
Political Limbo Puts Buenos Aires Subway at Standstill
Scenes from a city dealing with added congestion as a transit strike drags on.
The subway system of Buenos Aires has been at a full stop for more than a week, frustrating commuters and cramming the city's surface streets with a million extra people trying to find a way to get into and around the city.
Subte typically sees between 600,000 and a million riders each day, a sizable chunk of the commute crowd in Buenos Aires, a city of 3 million in a metropolitan area of 12 million. But more than 2,500 transit workers are upset with their wages, and called a strike beginning August 3. They are demanding a 28 percent increase in pay, according to this article from the AFP.