Attention pushers of the "War on Cars" meme: It's not just Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn who's siding with urban bikers these days. The rot goes all the way to the top!

WASHINGTON—U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood signaled on Tuesday that his department would be looking into measures to encourage automobile drivers to observe better safety standards when it came to bicyclists cohabiting the roadways.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, the Illinois Republican praised various cities for restructuring transportation policy around cleaner forms of transit, singling out the construction of bike lanes to encourage biking as particularly effective. But with additional bikers on the road come additional risks. And as head of the Department of Transportation, LaHood noted his “concern” over the “way that bikers are treated when they are on streets.”

Naturally, the Huffington Post asked the obvious follow-up question: Secretary LaHood, are you a hipster?

His response: “I don’t even know what that term means."