Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) of Portland is the House’s leading bicycle advocate and one of the most progressive thinkers on designing our transportation systems for pedestrians, bicycles, buses and streetcars as well as private automobiles.

Yesterday, Blumenauer (D-OR) said anti-bicycle Republicans in Congress, “don’t get it”. Those include Jim DeMint, who tried to strip all bicycle funding from the stimulus.

Streetfilms caught up with Blumenauer recently for an interview about livable streets, the stimulus, and the Obama movement:

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.