Bankrolling transportation reform

My profile of financier and transportation reformer Mark Gorton appears in this week’s New York Observer, you can read it here. Gorton’s been profiled before, mostly for his financial wizardry (the quantitative hedge fund he founded needed trades so fast none of the electronic brokerages he worked with could satisfy him, so he started his own), but this piece focuses on the role he has played in the recent massive changes to New York City’s street design – notably the blocking off of Broadway in Times Square to traffic. Gorton’s non-profit runs Streetsblog, probably the best and most influential source for opinionated news on transportation issues in New York and D.C.