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'Nightmare' Transit Strike: 23-Mile Backups, 10K More Cars Per Hour, NJT Officials Say
2016-03-03 18:59:25| Railroads - Topix.net
New Jersey Transit officials paint grim picture of travel in Garden State if 4,000 union workers stop working March 13. If thousands of union workers go on strike at 12:01 a.m. March 13, New Jersey Transit will implement a contingency plan, but it won't be able to accommodate nearly half of its daily volume. The union and transit organization met last Friday to negotiate and have a meeting set for Friday, March 4 for another negotiation session.
NJ Transit paints dire picture of rail strike possibilities Updated Mar 3, 2016 at
2016-03-03 17:54:35| Railroads - Topix.net
New Jersey Transit officials say the service won't be able to get all commuters into New York if rail workers strike next weekend.
New Jersey commuters bracing for transit strike
2016-02-28 06:03:09| Railroads - Topix.net
The last time New Jersey railroad employees walked off the job, displaced Manhattan commuters turned to fill-in charter buses for more than a month. Thirty-three years later, as members of Congress try to head off a New Jersey Transit strike authorized for March 13, the nation's third-biggest mass-transit provider again is counting on motor coaches to cross the Hudson River.
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Southwest: Possible Bird Strike Prompts Flight Return to BWI
2016-02-22 18:11:40| Airlines - Topix.net
Southwest Airlines says a possible bird strike prompted pilots to return a flight to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after takeoff. Southwest said in a statement Monday morning that Flight 484 took off for Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport but returned safely.
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NJ Transit chief criticizes federal strike settlement plan
2016-02-20 21:25:17| Railroads - Topix.net
The acting head of New Jersey Transit has sharply criticized a federal labor panel's proposal for avoiding a potential strike by union rail workers. Dennis Martin says the agency and riders can't afford the cost of a settlement endorsed by a second Presidential Emergency Board.
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