31.   The police say the man, a transit worker, threatened their lives.

32.   The tracks that trains use are determined by transit workers in an Avondale rail center.

33.   The strike threat came as musicians and transit workers were also seizing on the holiday season to press their causes.

34.   There were two retired police officers, an electrician, a retired transit worker, a hospital administrator, a singer.

35.   Three transit workers were injured and hospitalized, and two of them may have suffered permanent hearing loss, Reuter said.

36.   Threats from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are also weighing on the minds of some transit workers.

37.   Transit workers repeated again and again which trains were running, which were not.

38.   Transit workers went about their routine, selling tokens and watching the trains come and go, as they have for years.

39.   Transit workers, like many people these days, bite their nails about job security.

40.   Transit workers said they had no more warning about the change than the riders did.