By Curtis Tate, NorthJersey.com; November 10, 2017
A top official at NJ Transit wrote a letter to federal safety regulators warning them about a staffing shortage at the agency two months before a deadly commuter train crash last year, federal and state officials have confirmed.
In the letter, Robert Lavell, the agency’s vice president and general manager of rail operations, detailed the losses: 93 non-union employees had retired from NJ Transit, or sought work elsewhere, between January 2014 and July 2016. Combined, their experience totaled 2,339 years.
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