Strike by New Jersey Transit Train Engineers Leaves Some 350,000 Commuters in the Lurch

7 weeks ago New Jersey Transit train engineers are on strike in a dispute over wages, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout Friday comes after the latest round of negotiations on Thursday didn’t produce an agreement. Picketers gathered outside transit headquarters and the Hoboken Terminal. It’s the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years. It halts all NJ Transit commuter trains, which provide heavily used routes between New York City’s Penn Station on one side of the Hudson River and communities in northern New Jersey on the other, as well as the Newark airport.