Here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxU4cXzGIY to Congressman Earl Blumenauer's speech on CSPAN demanding attention to bike fatalities (May 18, 2010, YouTube video). This short video is truly inspirational, from one of the biggest bicycling advocates we have in Washington, DC. Earlier this spring he also wrote a very powerful endorsement calling our event the "National Ride of Silence".

Also, very sad news comes from our neighbors to the north in Montreal, Canada, where in just the past few days they've experienced 2 horrible road tragedies claiming 4 bicyclists, 3 in one crash alone.