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At least Mussolini made the trains run on time.

Pat Deon, the current board chairman of SEPTA (which earned the national 2012 Outstanding Public Transportation System award) speaking to former Chairman Lou Gambaccini. Under Gambaccini's leadership in the '90s, the transit agency was tens of millions of dollars in debt.

Pat Deon, the current board chairman of SEPTA (which earned the national 2012 Outstanding Public Transportation System award) speaking to former Chairman Lou Gambaccini. Under Gambaccini's leadership in the '90s, the transit agency was tens of millions of dollars in debt.

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