Riders navigate the first weekday of a strike that has shut down the largest US commuter rail system

Commuters are navigating a maze of car, bus and subway routes after a strike shut down the Long Island Rail Road in New York. Negotiations failed to reach a deal in time for service to resume, leaving 250,000 commuters to scramble for alternatives Monday morning. The strike on North America’s largest commuter rail system began Saturday. Negotiations to end the action ran past 1 a.m. Monday before participants called it a night for about six hours. The five unions representing about half the rail...