Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
And your area politicians as cyclists and supporting cycling? Or maybe they just bike and lie low at city hall.
Adrian Fenty, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. is famously - and somewhat controversially - a triathlete. I say "controversially" because he has been filmed by an overzealous crew looking for a scandal using a motorcycle police security escort on his mid-day training rides (and filmed allegedly riding on closed-to-bike roads (which is an extremely popular group bike ride route, btw)) and running stop signs and red lights. Still, he's done a fair bit to make the US capital more bike-aware (if not friendly), as much as the locals are dragged into it, kicking and screaming.

Can't say any of my local pols are bike riders.