(Source: Star-Ledger, March 12, 2014)
NEWARK, N.J. — The new executive director of NJ Transit inherits an agency still reeling from a mass transit tie-up at last month’s Super Bowl and the drowning of hundreds of trains at a Kearny rail yard during Hurricane Sandy. Ronnie Hakim, who has been on the job about two weeks, oversees more than 11,000 employees — nonunion workers angry over having their free transit passes taken away and union employees who haven’t had a new contract in years.
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