Quite a while ago now, I interviewed David Gunn, then head of Amtrak. In one memorable moment, Gunn detailed the relationship between what be have on the ground – roads, rails and such – and the skill of the workers who make and maintain them. It’s a link that we often forget about. I’m posting a link to the one part of the interview that ran in the newsletter I used to edit, Spotlight on the Region of the Regional Plan Association, where I’m still a Senior Fellow. (The other part ran in the May 2004 issue of Planning Magazine.) The archives of the newsletter have got a bit jumbled I fear, as websites and such has gotten updated so I’m putting a link to the interview here and above. I happened to run across it recently.