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BART, union reach agreement; strike ends

Posted at 1:10 PM, Oct 22, 2013
and last updated 2013-10-22 13:25:01-04

(CNN) — The Bay Area Rapid Transit strike ended Monday night after union negotiators and management reached a late-night deal.

Trains are expected to be up and running sometime Tuesday — but it wasn’t immediately clear whether full service will be restored in time for the morning commute.

The two sides had been negotiating a new contract for months, with little headway. Neither side released details of the tentative agreement.

The strike, which began Friday morning, was the second in three months.

Like the last one in July, this too lasted three days and 22 hours.

BART, whose system normally serves 26 communities including San Francisco and Oakland, chartered buses during the strike for highly limited but free rush-hour service.

That helped about 6,000 passengers in each direction, according to BART.

Still, that was just a fraction of the roughly 400,000 people who use the service daily.

CNN’s Greg Morrison contributed to this report.

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