Union members cited five years without wage increases and said the new contract aims to bring NJ Transit wages closer to regional norms, which average around $113,000 a year for NJ Transit engineers, with union demands aiming as high as $170,000 a year.

A tentative agreement has been reached to end New Jersey's first statewide transit strike in more than 40 years.

New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.

New Jersey Transit trains will begin running again on Tuesday after the agency reached a tentative deal on Sunday with striking rail engineers on wage increases, ending a three-day work stoppage that had left tens of thousands of commuters to New York scrambling to find alternative transportation.

A tentative deal has been reached to end a New Jersey rail strike by raising wages of workers whose picketing halted the country’s third-largest transit system.