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Bus Strike Impacts Thousands Of Tucson Residents

The Tucson bus strike has been going on for more than a week, leaving tens of thousands of residents struggling to get to work.

And optimism is not high that there’s light at the end of the tunnel to bring it to a close.

We got an update from Andrea Kelly, reporter and producer for Arizona Public Media in Tucson.

The strike has been affecting Tucson residents trying to get to work, school and other appointments. To get a sense of how bus riders are being impacted, we called Diana Garcia, the supervisor of the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Grants at the Rio Nuevo One-Stop Center in Tucson. It offers services like job development, adult basic ed, utility assistance and help with housing.

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Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.