New Jersey traffic urged passengers to reach their destinations before Thursday or risk being stranded as the conversations continued in an attempt to avoid a railway strike of trains engineers that would affect about 350,000 travelers who work in New Jersey and New York City.
He Advice provided to runners with details In contingency plans that would come into force if engineers go to work at 12:01 AM EDT Friday. The agency plans to increase the bus service, saying that it would add a “very limited” capacity to the existing Near York Cercanías Buses routes in proximity to the railway stations and will hire with private carriers to operate the bus service from key parks and regional trips during the peak periods from Monday to Friday.
However, the agency said that buses could not handle near the same number of passengers, only about 20% of current rail clients, so it has urged people who can work from home to do so if there is a strike.
Transit – The third largest transit system in the country – operates buses and railways in the state, providing almost 1 million trips from Monday to Friday, even in New York City. A strike would stop all Transit near trains of NJ, which provide public transport routes widely used between the Penn station of New York City on one side of the Hudson River and communities in the north of New Jersey in the other and the other Newark airportwhich has dealt with unrelated delays recently.
Salaries have been the main conflict point of negotiations between the agency and the Brotherhood of Engineers of Locomotives and Trains. The union says that its members earn an average salary of $ 113,000 a year and says that an agreement could be reached if the agency’s CEO, Kris Koluri, accepts an average annual salary of $ 170,000.
However, NJ Transit leadership disputes the union data, saying that engineers have average total earnings of $ 135,000 annually, with the highest winners exceed $ 200,000.
If the strike occurs, it would be the first state traffic strike in more than 40 years. It occurs a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected A labor agreement with management.
The parties met on Monday with a Federal Mediation Board in Washington to discuss the dispute, but both the parties and the Board have refused to comment if some progress has been achieved in subsequent conversations this week.
