A 74-year old Democrat in Congress pushing to make roads safer thinks 'the bicycle is the key to much of what ails us'
Rep. Earl Blumenauer hasn't had a car in DC for all 27 years he's served in Congress. Instead, the Oregon Democrat bicycles to work on the Hill and to his engagements around the city.
It was a nice morning — sunny and about 75 degrees — on Thursday when road safety advocates and elected officials gathered outside the Capitol to talk about federal legislation to improve bike infrastructure. "DC has a great network of bike facilities, but it's nowhere near enough," Hart said."Vision Zero is failing in DC and it is failing in too many communities across the country, in part because it lacks funding."
"She was actually going to take the route that I took today to get here, which was down the Capital Crescent trail," Langenkamp said of the day his wife was killed."As we all know, it's just this beautiful piece of safe infrastructure. The problem is, of course, there's this gap between the Capital Crescent trail and most of the communities around it. Getting to that trail can be deadly.
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