Bard Bruce Springsteen is the popular music music in New Jersi Windy in his success “Born To Run” one day “We will reach this place where we really want to go, and we will walk in the sun.”
But in recent days, keeping this promise to Wendy – and to anyone else trying to enter and get out of Garden State – has become more difficult.
Springsteen’s song was released in 1975, a long time before the congestion price raised the cost of driving to New York City; Before air traffic officers started to lose radio and radar with the aircraft they were directing to the Newark Liberty International Airport; Before the New Jersey transport engineers went out after midnight on Friday for the first time in 40 years.
I left the latest in Trifecta of the travel challenges about 100,000 passengers through New Jersey wondering on Friday how they will make them move them to work.
“I have no idea, frankly,” said Julia negative, who lives in Lindhorest, who was trying to reach Manhattan for the last day at the Fashion Institute. “Maybe I will take the bus.”
Laura Conyev, another regular traveler, Laura Conyev, said her husband would have to lead her to Hobokin, where she can take the track train to Manhattan, and that he would exceed the work to capture her in Hopockin when she works.
“My God, I don’t even know what I will do if it continues for weeks,” Kounev said when I was asked whether she hoped that the strike would soon be resolved. “I hope that, because so far we have my car used by children’s glyc to transport children to and from school, so I eat public transport.”
The Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy said they are ready to resume salary talks when the Muslim Brotherhood returns to the engineers and train (BLE), which represents 450 to 500 transport workers in NJ, to the bargaining table.
He said on Friday: “What the New Jersey people now need is for BLET members to ascend and meet their obligations towards the public.”
Ensuring the ruler, NJ Transit President Chris Colory said they are designers “to reach a fair deal at reasonable prices as soon as possible.”
Federation President Tom Haas late on Thursday said he wanted to “raise the transmission engineers in New Jersey to a level of wages that are suitable for all other railway engineers in the northeast,” adding that their railway engineers are less than 20 % of their counterparts.
Haas said before the engineers hit: “NJ transit is still unwilling to bridge this gap,” Haas said before the engineers hit.
Another event that stopped NJ Transit in 1983 and lasted 34 days. While Tony Soprano did not collide with traffic shops that drive her car to the Bulaski road from the Lincoln Tunnel in the opening credits of “Soprano”, the rest of us live in the real world.
New Jersey is a narrow and crowded country with higher population than Japan, where even in good days, traffic is often moved such as molasses in adult cities outside New York City and Philadelphia.
This is how this strike, legislators, and union leaders say, He has everything that affects the full transport crisis.
“This is a problem for everyone,” said a locomotive engineer on a sit -in line and his name refused. “We understand this and hope this will be resolved as quickly as possible. Because the last thing we want to do is to be here. Believe me.”
“The strike represents a dangerous burden on passengers and creates difficulties for our residents in Newark, in addition to the people who come to work,” said the mayor of Newark Ras Barka, a candidate for the governor who recently occupied the headlines when he was arrested in a federal immigration detention facility to protest against President Trump’s immigrant campaign.
“We hope that the talks will resume this week and the strike can end,” said Barka.
NJ transit now urges railways to think about taking passenger buses to Manhattan.
But the car mobility, especially in the peak hour, became much more expensive in January when it gave New York Governor Cathy Hotels the green light to re -launch congestion, a first plan in the nation aimed at reducing Gridlock by imposing 9 dollars on most vehicles that enter Manhattan during peak hours.
Despite the protests that made strange bodies of Murphy, Democrat and President Trump, the pricing of crowding remains in reality and it seems that it works, at least at least For New York residents.
Meanwhile, the talks were taking place between the Federal Aviation Administration and the main airlines to reduce congestion in the sky over New Jersey by reducing the number of aircraft flying inside the Newark Liberty International Airport.
These talks were seriously fired after air traffic monitors on April 28 lost 90 seconds radio and radar with the aircraft they were directing to Newark, a boat close to the failure of copper wires that transports radar data from New York to the base of the Conservative Unit in Philadelphia.
The result was a tremendous delay in Newark Liberty, one of the busiest airports in the country, which continues to this day.
The New Jersey Transit system regularly suffers from a delay, which has been exacerbated by infrastructure aging.
Weighting until 2010, when state governor Chris Christie, a Republican, killed a $ 8.7 billion arc tunnel project that would build an additional railway tunnel under the Hudson River and NJ transit enabled to double The number of trains entering Manhattan per hour In the peak travel times To 50.
Since then, NJ Transit has been ranked over and over again The worst train system in the nation With the delay resulting from the aging trains in the collapse and blocking of the northern river tunnels dating back to a century, which was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
NJ Transit has to face the costs of the reforms and a budget hole of $ 750 million, partially, Covid Pubby. administration Try filling the opening by raising prices.
Christie, who pulled the plug for the project after 1.2 billion dollars has already been spent on engineering and Transfer 3 billion dollars of money Dependable for the tunnel to save his mandate funds and avoid raising gas taxes, I have been steadily defended This decision.
“The arc project was a deadly defective project that expected $ 2-3 billion on the budget, and it should only be absorbed by the dollar by the taxpayers in New Jersey, without any contribution from Amsrac or the state of New York,” said Christie via e-mail on Friday. “The tunnel will go to an unnecessary station under Messi, leaving the passengers away from any other collective transit. It was like a torn off -GPRI taxpayer for a bad project. The right decision was then a better decision today.”
Last year, the Biden administration revealed the Hudson River tunnel worth $ 11 billion The project that aims to complete the job That Christie was frustrated.
Christie is closely known for the amount of political damage that can come from making it difficult to circumvent the garden mandate.
In 2013, members of his administration were accused of intentionally constructing the bottle on the George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey to northern Manhattan to punish a local mayor for not supporting Christie.
Christie denied any involvement in what became called “Bridge”.
However, there is hope that the NJ transport kick will be short -term. The NJ Transport Administration and the amazing engineers have indicated ready to resume contract negotiations.
Indeed, travel alternatives are placed in place. As the weather increases, different phrases are made to Manhattan especially attractive – if you can reach their sidewalks.
What can a New Jersey traveler do now besides working from home? He also advised the most well -known resident in the Rhod Road State Park, you can also “decrease in the window, and let the wind blows your hair.”
Assuming that you are not stuck in traffic.
