NJ Transit on brink of strike
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NJ Transit riders are bracing for a rail strike that could start Friday at midnight and throw their daily commutes into chaos.
As late as Wednesday night, the two sides were expressing some optimism for a settlement. Since then, radio silence.
Engineers at New Jersey Transit are poised to go on strike one minute after midnight Friday morning, a stoppage that would create huge problems for100,000 daily train commuters, businesses across the New York metropolitan area as well as fans of Shakira and Beyoncé,
Beyonce fans might be better off riding a horse to next week’s “Cowboy Carter” concerts at MetLife Stadium if a strike shuts down NJ Transit rail service. NJ Transit’s train engineers could walk off the job as soon as Friday after Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers members voted to reject a tentative agreement between the leaders of the agency and the union.