Tens of thousands of New Jersey residents who work in New York City would not be able to get to their jobs if NJ Transit workers go on strike later this month, the system's leadership warned on Thursday.
With the clock ticking on the transit authority's negotiations with its unions, officials outlined their contingency scenario — one that leaves the majority of riders with no way to get across the Hudson River.
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It would also create the prospect of mass gridlock on the region's already crowded roads, with thousands of extra cars per hour trying to get across narrow bridges and tunnels.
Read the transit agency's point-by-point tweets on the strike's impacts and their backup plans below:
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