11.   Some are reaping the benefits of the transport strike, which is particularly stinging in the capital.

12.   Their defiant stand came amid indications a three-week public transport strike is on the wane.

13.   When Prime Minister Alain Juppe tried to do that more than a year ago, a nationwide rail and public transport strike brought the country to a halt.

14.   Organizers blamed the taxpayer-funded loss on a public transport strike on the March race weekend which resulted in a reduction in general admission sales on race day.

15.   A dawn-to-noon transport strike stranded thousands of passengers in many towns in Pampanga province north of Manila where classes also were suspended.

16.   A partial transport strike affected the flow of traffic through Paris only marginally Wednesday, officials said.

17.   A series of transport strikes will disrupt travel in Italy starting Thursday when air traffic controllers and railway workers announced they will walk off the job.

18.   A strike committee appealed for an end to a public transport strike, and for lifting of all blockades of city streets and main trade routes.

19.   A public transport strike Friday idling buses, trams and subways in the middle of a heat wave made getting around miserable for commuters and tourists.

20.   A transport strike severely disrupted traffic on Paris commuter lines for a fourth day Friday despite tough new measures to curb violence on public transport.