Gabe Klein shares some thoughts on his new book, Start-Up City, along with some great music and appearance by the Start-Up City Players. Thanks to Clarence Eckerson for this exclusive music video.

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Sit back and watch as Mark Gorton interviews Gabe Klein for Streetfilms about his new book "Start-Up City". Gabe is a former Transportation Commissioner for Washington, DC and the City of Chicago. Gabe Klein serves on the board of Open Plans, of which Streetfilms is under the umbrella of.

The Washington DC Metropolitan Area will host the Rail-Volution conference next year. Participants will get a firsthand look at the incredible variety of transit oriented projects underway in the District and its neighbors. For more information visit http://www.railvolution.com.

Warm weather has arrived, the snow piles have finally disappeared, and the back-to-back storms that pounded the DC area in February are now a distant memory. But if you want to relive that incredible, intense 6 day period, this video timeline produced in house at DDOT will bring it all back.

D.C. looks to streetcars to alleviate traffic, but critics have some issues. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.

Transportation is trending from the "me"-mentality of single occupancy vehicles to the "we"-mentality of the sharing economy. Is collaborative consumption the future of transportation? Innovations in peer-sharing transit systems such as bike sharing and car sharing are gaining momentum in cities across the world.

Read the full story here: http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/learning-to-love-bike-lanes-some.html Department of Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein and Mayor Rahm Emanuel dedicate a two-way bike lane on Dearborn Street in Chicago's Loop, part of the city's Chicago Streets for Cycling Plan 2020. December 14, 2012

Gabe Klein, director of DC DOT, shows us some of the accomplishments of the agency and talks about future plans and how he sees

T The Morgan 'L' station is officially open, marking the first new Chicago Transit Authority station to open in Chicago in 18 years. Serving the Green and Pink Lines, the Morgan station sits in the burgeoning Near West/West Loop neighborhoods, which have seen substantial residential and commercial development over the past several years-complementing the area's long-established light-industrial and food-supply and processing businesses.

Pedestrians tired of doding cars eager to turn in the Loop now have more room - and time - to shuffle. Or rather, "scramble." On Friday, city officials unveiled an all-way crosswalk at the busy intersection of State Street and Jackson Boulevard.

This panel: 'Getting There: Today's Smartest Investments in Tomorrow's Transportation Solutions' is moderated by: Ron Brownstein, editorial director, Atlantic Media Speakers: Gabe Klein, commissioner of Transportation, Chicago, Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner of Transportation, New York City and Mayor Pam O'Connor, Santa Monica, CA The Atlantic, the Aspen Institute, and Bloomberg Philanthropies Present "CityLab: Urban Solutions for Global Challenges."

The first of four seasonal open spaces for outdoor seating along commercial corridors opened to the public this week. Sponsored by neighborhood service providers, these new "People Spots" are designed to increase pedestrian volumes and promote local economic development.

The Chicago Department of Transportation recently unveiled the "greenest street in America," the first phase of a two-mile stretch of Blue Island Avenue and Cermak Road in the Pilsen neighborhood that is an unprecedented demonstration of how cutting-edge sustainable design and "complete streets" principles can be implemented in the public right of way.

Gabe Klein, Chicago's transportation commissioner, shares details of the ambitious agenda his city has pursued for projects such as the Riverwalk, Bloomingdale Trail, and expanded access for bicycles through bike sharing and protected lanes. Klein spoke to attendees at the 2013 UL Fall Meeting in Chicago.