Statement on the NJ Transit Strike
UPDATE! We are glad to hear of the tentative agreement, though many of our members will be working their way to tonight’s meeting at the Summit Free Public Library without a train—#70 bus it is! We’re glad to see service restored tomorrow, May 20.
Comments from May 16: This strike will be hard for riders throughout the state, but especially in areas such as my town of Woodcliff Lake, where the few buses were substantially cut in response to the pandemic and never returned to a full schedule. What is most important to rail passengers is that both sides work in good faith to resolve the issues quickly so that we don’t have to suffer through an extended outage. Riders who are able to find alternatives may not come back, and that makes the per-passenger cost greater for everyone, bad news for both agency and union, as well as the riders, taxpayers, and businesses of the state.
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