N.J. Transit and New York Businesses Make Strike Contingency Plans

The worst-case situations are sounding dire.

Doctors sleeping on cots at their Manhattan hospitals because they cannot get home to New Jersey. A cost to New York City’s economy of nearly $6 million per hour of delays. Traffic jams in New Jersey up to 25 miles long.

But as a Sunday deadline approached for the first New Jersey Transit rail strike in 33 years, railroad and union officials tried to sound a positive note. 

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Article courtesy of The New York Times by Andy Newman and Emma G. Fitzsimmons