Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Gabe Klein

Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 20, 2022 | No Comments

Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure bill and will hand out $7.5 billion in funding for the coming EV charging network.

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Don’t Hire Rahm Emanuel as USDOT Chief

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2020 | No Comments

Announcing Emanuel as your choice would almost certainly fill the streets of Chicago with hundreds or thousands of justifiably angry protesters. You really don't want to kick off your administration that way.

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Why Rahm Emanuel Shouldn't Be the Next DOT Secretary

By John Greenfield | Nov 11, 2020 | No Comments

Former CDOT chief Gabe Klein would be an ethical choice for the transportation slot who wouldn't alienate the Democratic party's progressive wing.

High Stakes for Cities as Feds Start Regulating Self-Driving Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 21, 2016 | 44 Comments

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

By Gabe Klein | Oct 26, 2015 | 1 Comment

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”

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 13, 2015 | No Comments

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 […]

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