NJ Transit Cavaliers face disturbances in massive services while the barley system as a flight to the midnight deadline on Thursday to avoid its first major rail strike in more than 40 years.
The rail service belonging to the Garden State has already stations with a screaming red signage warning deep service cuts from midnight Friday if the contractual negotiations with the fraternity of union locomotive engineers.
“Critical Service Advisory: Due to a potential railway stop, NJ Transit strongly advises all customers to train their trips and arrive at their final destination at the latest at 11:59 pm on Thursday, May 15,” reads a panel on a television instructor at the Port Bus Terminal.
The commuters told the post that they were already trying to understand alternatives to public transport if the strike would occur – and the options are difficult on the portfolio.
Lisa Monroe, 53, resident of the NJ, who works in the media, said that working for the house is not an option for her, and that going back and forth in the city five days a week will increase to around $ 425 per week, not counting gas.
“Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going to do,” she said, noting that she is already considering the expenses she can reduce to make it work.
“We have to spend more money to go to work, just to shuttle, and your salary will not correspond. My salary will not go out with the additional $ 85 or more per day due to a strike. I have to reduce. “
Despite this, Monroe said she had sympathy for NJ Transit workers who left work.
“I don’t want to blame workers to go on strike, but it’s a difficulty for me.”
The suburbs Maritza Moreira, 37, who works in construction, said that she was planning to stay with her mother in the city with her 9-month-old daughter and her husband, who also works in New York, although this can be cramped, she said.
“I have reached my limits. It becomes more and more frustrating every day. The train was extremely late today and I just don’t understand why. People pay, they are packed and now they talk about a strike. I just don’t understand the money.
Moreira said she was even planning to flee the Garden State and move south – partly due to frustration with the trains. She works at home three days a week, but hopes to convince her employer from the increase to five days.
With only hours before the deadline, the impact could be felt by the runners as early as midnight Thursday.
“There are no replacement workers, and this will certainly involve interruptions in service – NJ Transit is very clear on this subject,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics and a former communications director of the former governor of NJ Jim McGreevy.
“It is not as if the service could simply be paved together on a workshop, and they know it. I think it will be ugly,” said Rasmussen about a possible rail strike, although he said that he hoped that the negotiations – who saw the parties meet in Washington, DC, this week, would bear fruit.
“It seems that there is a possible radius of hope there. We will see. We will know it at midnight. “
A familiar source with the ongoing discussions between NJ Transit and the union told the post that although there were setbacks, there have also been “real negotiations”, but that “if they have enough time to do so remains to be seen”.
The president of engineers of the locomotive brotherhood, Tom Haas, said during the negotiations on Wednesday that he was “optimistic” that an agreement could be concluded, said the source.
NJ Transit announced on Monday that it had preventively removed bus and rail services at the Metlife Stadium Thursday and Friday due to the possible strike, where Shakira will perform an audience of tens of thousands.
Thursday’s concert is exhausted, which means that strikes may have an impact on thousands of crowds of 82,500 stadium capacities according to people who planned to take public transport.
