With no visible end to the transit strike in sight, some HRM commuters are changing their ways ‘ for good.

Rose Zack says she usually walks or takes the bus to work in the downtown area but since the strike hit she’s been biking from her home on Quinpool Road.

“It’s been forcing me to find other ways to get around, and I actually prefer biking,” Zack said, while holding the handlebars of a mint blue vintage-like bike on Barrington Street Thursday.

“I definitely will try and keep that up after (the strike is over)…. I’m really enjoying it.”

On Thursday afternoon, several bikes could be seen chained to lamp posts in the downtown core.

Talks broke off between the city and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508, which represents the over 700 transit workers, early Thursday morning after a 21-hour marathon negotiating session, leaving commuters in limbo, wondering when the buses and ferries will start running again.

It can’t come soon enough for Danish Khan, a student at Dalhousie University. The Beechville resident is now forced to carpool into the city’s downtown core hours before his first class at noon.

“I have a student bus pass, so that’s usually all I use to get everywhere,” Khan said on Thursday. “And there’s no way I can pay for a cab ride.”

But other residents say they’re not fazed by the strike, and have been coping just fine.

Carol Johnstone said she often takes the bus, but also has the option to drive her car.

“Since I have a car, I’m not completely devastated,” said Johnstone, a local artist who lives near the Armdale Rotary. “I drive my car if I have to, and walk if it’s not too far.”