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David Gunn on Amtrak’s $151bn NEC plan and how he rebuilt the Harrisburg line

September 1, 2012 By Stephen Smith

First order of business: I wrote two articles for Bloomberg View (the opinion counterpart to Bloomberg News) on the high cost of US transit – one on private-sector gouging, and one on public-sector gouging.Secondly, I've been talking to former Amtrak president David Gunn a lot recently – at … [Read more...]

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