To Gabe Klein, inventing the wheel is an ongoing revolution. From the time he began working in his activist dad’s Charlottesville bike shop to his role in introducing Zipcar to Washington to his tenures as transportation director for DC mayor Adrian Fenty and, later, Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel, the creator of Capital Bikeshare has seen putting people in motion as a powerful expression of our politics and culture.
Klein—now an entrepreneur working for fledgling transit ventures who lives in Columbia Heights with his wife and 18-month-old daughter—recently published Start-Up City, a book that explains the changes in city government needed to get things done. Over breakfast at the Coupe in his neighborhood, he discussed how his experiences in Washington and Chicago shaped his approach.
Read the interview at The Washingtonian.
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