TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

ON TN:

200 People Have Been Killed in Traffic Crashes in NYC This Year  (link)

MTA Chief: Metro-North Staff Overworked and Fatigued (link)

Ban Cars? Debate Intensifies Over Traffic Safety In Central Park (link)

TUESDAY LINKS:

More than 400 pedestrians are killed by trains each year in the U.S. Those people are all trespassing — but should the railroads do more to prevent those deaths? (NPR)

Strike averted? SEPTA and its union workers may have reached a tentative contract deal. (Inquirer)

On the Pontiac Aztek, widely considered to be among the most hideous vehicles of all time: "When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was a joke. How could a group of people who call themselves automotive professionals do something that bad?" (Car and Driver)

A L.A. bus driver has been quarantined after a masked passenger began yelling, "Don't mess with me, I have Ebola!" (L.A. Times)

High winds are wreaking havoc on Dallas's transit system. (Dallas Morning News)

A NYC man says he's gone on 500 dates with women he's met on the subway. “There’s always beautiful women down there — tons." Yes, meet the man the NY Post is calling a 'subterranean seducer' and a 'railway Romeo.'

There's a plan to turn an abandoned elevated railway in Queens into a park, and it's being described as "the High Line on Steroids." (NYT)

A spate of fiery oil train derailments has some calling for less flammable oil. (NPR)

Come sit around the fire, my readers, and listen to the tale of ... the moving Chinese bus stops. (WSJ)

Low-wage airport workers want more protection from Ebola — and other hazards, like toxic chemicals and bodily fluids. (Nation)

Seattle now has a bike share program. Repeat: bike share is now live in Seattle. (KUOW)

Sri Lanka will reopen its northern rail line that will connect the city of Jaffna to the capital, Colombo, nearly a quarter of century after a bloody civil war shut it down. (Al Jazeera)

Aaaaaahhhh: NYC subway line typography posters. (The Wall Breakers; h/t Dan Rivoli)