(Source: New Jersey 101.5, August 23, 2018)
NEWARK, N.J. — As the quality of NJ Transit has gone down, the frustration of riders has gone up – and with it, alarm among train conductors about assaults of workers by angry commuters. In addition to a law ending a residency requirement for NJ Transit workers, the union for its train conductors is pushing legislators to make prison terms mandatory in instances where uniformed crew members are assaulted. There is a specific law against assaulting train conductors and bus drivers, but it doesn’t make a prison term automatic.
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