Hudson-Bergen Light Rail union workers rallied for justice in Jersey City for their colleague after he was suspended following a fatal train strike of a woman last month, arguing that the contractor operating and maintaining the light rail has been cutting corners.
The union alleges that operations kept trains moving after another operator reported a severely inebriated woman on the tracks in pre-dawn darkness on September 25th.
Two minutes later, train operator Ronald Kangalee was instructed to proceed with extreme caution toward the reported hazard without a specific speed restriction and without the track first being cleared, leading to the woman being struck and killed…