New Stop For Mr. Fix-it
30 January 2001 - 2:00pm
Robert R. Kiley, Boston and NYC subway savior, takes on the oldest subway system in the world.
"Robert R. Kiley, who ran the MBTA in the 1970s, New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority in the '80s, and is now designated savior of the crumbling, wheezing London Underground, the oldest subway system in the world...The Tube, most Londoners will tell you, is too crowded, too expensive, and breaks down too often. And they expect Kiley to fixit."
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New stop for Mr. Fix-it
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The Boston Globe, January 30, 2001
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