A possible strike against New Jersey Transit by the engineers' union could lead to a shutdown of NJ Transit train lines, causing a disruption to over 350,000 commuters.

NJ Transit is spending $2.7 billion to retire all its old trains, which will increase reliability for riders by 2031.

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” tour gallops into MetLife Stadium from May 22 through 29, but thanks to a looming NJ Transit strike, getting there might feel less like a victory lap and more like an Oregon Trail-level survival challenge.

New Jersey Transit is urging riders to reach their destinations or risk being stranded. The warning comes as talks continued Thursday in a bid to avert a rail strike by train engineers that would affect some 350,

Gov. Phil Murphy campaigned for the State House eight years ago on a promise to fix New Jersey’s transit system. He called NJ Transit a “national disgrace,” and blamed his predecessor Chris Christie for not investing in the system used by more than 170,000 weekday rail riders.

Engineers at New Jersey Transit are poised to go on strike one minute after midnight Friday morning, a stoppage that would create huge problems for100,000 daily train commuters, businesses across the New York metropolitan area as well as fans of Shakira and Beyoncé,

If the engineers do walk off the job, the agency plans to increase bus service, saying it would add “very limited” capacity to existing New York commuter bus routes in close proximity to rail stations and will contract with private carriers to operate bus service from key regional park-and-ride locations during weekday peak periods.