I'm ashamed of the governor and the way they've handled this. 'I waited like five trains and they were all canceled,' said Yesi Mendez, a New York City resident. NJ Transit officials admitted to hearing rumors about it late Thursday, but it's unclear what - if anything - they did to prepare. CBS2 learned the number of engineers who called out sick Friday was nearly triple the weekday average. NJ Transit said the union representing those workers took an illegal job action. The problems started during the Friday morning rush when dozens of trains were canceled because of an engineer shortage. So now I'm just waiting for another one,' said Sparrow, who lives in Pearl River, New York. 'As soon as I got in the Uber, the driver told me he can't go to New York.

Michelle Sparrow tried to get an Uber in Secaucus. Those who missed the last trains had few option. It's just really not fair,' said Trina Holden from East Orange.

Everybody is going crazy and they don't know what' going on. This is frustrating for the last minute and nobody to tell us anything. 'I live in Jersey and I work in the city. NJ TRANSIT expects engineers to report for their work assignments as scheduled on Saturday, 6/18, and we anticipate resuming service on a regular weekend schedule for the start of the service day.

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