The strike by the locomotive engineers would disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of commuters in the New York metropolitan region.

NJ Transit rail engineers will officially go on strike Friday after the union and the agency failed to reach an agreement.Gov. Phil Murphy and NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri held a press conference around 10:45 p.

NJ Transit engineers announced late Thursday that contract negotiations between the union and the transit agency failed to reach an agreement and that the union was going on strike. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen announced the move shortly after 11 p.