Robert R. Kiley, who when he took the job of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman in 1983 was determined to weaken the influence of unions on the transit system but eventually found middle ground often enough that when he later ran its London counterpart, he was the key obstacle to its being privatized, died Aug. 9 at age 80.
The New York Times said family members attributed the cause of death to complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
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