NJ Transit rail engineers are on strike Friday, shutting down train service for more than 100,000 daily riders across the state.New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy gave an update on the negotiations, saying "it did not have to come to this.

Commuters in the New York City suburbs must depend on alternate modes of transportation as engineers seeking higher pay walk out of work.

Mark Wallace, the union’s national president, confirmed that the union and NJ Transit didn’t reach an agreement on a new labor contract Thursday night, so the strike began at