As a strike deadline approaches for NJ Transit engineers, Metro-North Railroad is beefing up service on the east facet of the Hudson River to offer passengers further journey choices.
Metro-North’s two West-of-Hudson traces — the Port Jervis and Pascack Valley routes — are operated by NJ Transit crews in NJ Transit trains.
As beforehand reported, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the union that represents NJ Transit engineers — the operators who drive the trains — overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract earlier this month, setting a Could 16 strike deadline.
Ought to NJ Transit engineers stroll off the job, service on Metro-North’s two western traces will halt.
“This means potential severe impacts for our customers on the Port Jervis and Pascack Valley lines,” Metro-North President Justin Vonashek stated Wednesday.
In anticipation of the potential labor motion, Vonashek stated the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-operated trains on the japanese Hudson line will run with further vehicles. All Port Jervis and Pascack Valley line tickets will probably be cross-honored on the Hudson and Harlem traces, as will any West-of-Hudson parking passes on the Cortland, Beacon, New Hamburg, Poughkeepsie and North White Plains stations.
West-of-Hudson ticket holders can even be eligible free of charge bus and ferry connections throughout the Hudson River.
NJ Transit’s unionized engineers say they’ve been with out a increase since 2019, and earn lower than their friends — together with these MTA engineers on the east facet of the Hudson.
At a Wednesday press convention, NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri stated he wasn’t searching for a strike, however didn’t appear assured one may very well be prevented.
“None of the positions I’ve heard thus far from the unions are neither reasoned nor fair,” Kolluri stated.
