(KRON) — A weeks-long disruption of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) service was due to a workers’ strike. Full service is now expected to resume Thursday morning, the VTA announced.
VTA’s Green Line service was the last transit route to be restored following the VTA strike that began in March.
Service was supposed to be restored earlier, but copper wire thefts — as KRON4 reported Monday — caused a days-long delay for light rail service to return.
Light rail service being fully restored comes after a nearly three-week strike by employees that halted all VTA operations. The strike ended on Wednesday, March 26 when a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered an end to the strike.
VTA workers with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 265 were on strike for 17 days, seeking increased pay and benefits. The county judge ruled an end to the strike after citing a no-strike ordinance clause in the union’s contract with the VTA.
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