Is There Some Light At The End Of This Stinky, Piss-Filled Tunnel?

News reports within the last hour indicate that transit workers may go back to work while both sides continue to negotiate:

After meeting with both sides through the night, state mediators have devised a preliminary framework for a settlement of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract dispute that would allow strikers to return to work later today, according to four people close to the negotiations.

The people emphasized that the details of a final settlement would take at least a day or two longer to be finalized, although buses and subways would be running before that.

The agreement, they said, would give every side some of what it asked for.