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Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? (Ep. 455 Replay)

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The Coved Shutdown

Former new york city transit chief andy byford resigned in January. He was stuck in england with his wife after being detained on a flight back to the UK. An economist at oxford university, ferdinand ga says he could have stayed but felt guilty for those who had lost their jobs because of covid. Byford is now responsible for london's entire transport system above ground as well as its underground subway network. In two thousand 14, there was a two day transit strike that shut down some stations across the london subway system. You could look at this as simply a temporary inconvenience, or you could look at it as a forced fresh start, especially if you were an

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