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No plans to update LIRR's perilous grade crossings

If anyone would feel strongly about the need to replace all of the Long Island Rail Road's nearly 300 grade crossings, you might think it would be Robert Lindon.

Twenty-seven years ago, Lindon's daughter, Stacie, was one of 10 teenagers returning from a party in a Ford van when its driver tried to beat an oncoming train as it approached the Herricks Avenue crossing in Mineola. Stacie Lindon,...

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