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BART won’t be striking on Monday, or for the next two months, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Today a San Francisco Superior Court judge ordered a 60-day cooling-off period requested by Gov. Jerry Brown.

More from SFGate:

The order, which will stay in effect until midnight, Oct. 10, blocks any repeat of the 4 1/2-day walkout in early July that snarled traffic and disrupted the commute of hundreds of thousands of workers across the Bay Area.

The cooling off period expires on October 10.

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Update (10:34 p.m.): SFGate is now reporting that Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an investigation into the negotiations between BART management and its unions, thus averting a strike for at least one week. BART trains should run on their normal schedules tomorrow and throughout the week. We’ll update here if more news breaks.

Original post: BART and labor unions representing BART workers still haven’t reached an agreement on key issues involving wages, pension contribution and health insurance. With only a few hours left for negotiations, we could be facing the second BART strike this year on Monday.

SFGate reports that a few agreements were made at the table today but no major changes from last month’s contentions. Read more