🚀 go-pugleaf

(Crossposted to phl.transportation: all right, Phillies...
let's hear it for the man!)
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> Mayor selects new GM for Muni
> 
> Tyche Hendricks
> OF THE EXAMINER STAFF    March 15, 1999
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> Former Philadelphia transit chief vows to please customers
> 
> After a two-month national search, Mayor Willie Brown on
> Monday named Michael Thomas Burns - the head of
> Philadelphia's transit system - the new general manager for
> San Francisco's beleaguered Municipal Railway.
> 
> Burns brings to San Francisco a 20-year background in
> transportation, including 10 years as head of rail
> operations for Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation
> Authority and, most recently, six years with Philadelphia's
> multi-modal $700 million transit system.
> 
> Brown said he believed Burns' experience as chief operating
> officer at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
> Authority (SEPTA) - which carries 1 million riders a day and
> employs 8,000 - had prepared him well for Muni, which
> carries 680,000 passengers daily but has a budget half the
> size of SEPTA's.
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