Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
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Well, we're movin' on up!
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gabe Klein
OPINION: Scooter Share Will Be a Boon for New York
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By putting a few key protocols in place, micromobility companies can make e-scooters an integral part of the transportation landscape, our expert argues in this opinion piece.
High Stakes for Cities as Feds Start Regulating Self-Driving Cars
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Last week as part of his State of the Union Address, President Obama announced a $4 billion investment over the next 10 years to test autonomous vehicles and get them ready for the market. Two days later at the Detroit Auto Show, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that federal regulators would begin to develop coherent safety regulations for […]
The Inside Story of How Chicago Built the Dearborn Street Bike Lane
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Editor’s note: As transportation commissioner for DC and later Chicago, Gabe Klein was pivotal in the development of a new model for big-city DOTs. Along with Janette Sadik-Khan in New York, Klein (who sits on the board of OpenPlans, the organization that publishes Streetsblog) pioneered an approach that prioritized people instead of cars and emphasized the importance of […]
Gabe Klein Talks About Getting Sh*t Done in His New Book, “Start-Up City”
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Streets can be tough to change. Between institutional inertia, tight budgets, bureaucratic red tape, and the political risks of upsetting the status quo, even relatively simple improvements for walking, biking, or transit can take years to pull off — if they ever get implemented at all. But a new generation of transportation officials have shown that it doesn’t have […]