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David Gunn: Education and pre-Amtrak experience
David Gunn is holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard and served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1959-1962.
Before working for Amtrak, Gunn had the following work experience:
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1964 to 1967
- New York Central Railroad 1967 to 1968
- Assistant Vice-President, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad 1969 to 1974
- Director of Commuter Rail, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) 1974 to 1975
- Director of Operations, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) 1975 to 1979
- General Manager and Chief Operations Officer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) 1979 to 1984
- President, New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) 1984 to 1990
- General Manager, Washington DC Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) 1991 to 1994
- Chief General Manager, Toronto Transit Commission 1995 to 1999
Gunn has a philosophy called "state of good repair" where the first priority is to maintain infrastructure and equipment, making regular repairs where needed and retiring equipment from service at the end of its life-cycle. His tenure at the TTC was also marked by changes in management structure, which were criticized by some (including his successor, Rick Ducharme, in a July 1999 Toronto Star article). He also argued against new subway construction.
Toronto's only fatal subway train accident, the August 11 1995, collision which claimed three lives, happened only eight months after Gunn became head of the TTC.
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