Friday, March 30, 2007

Critical mass



Since someone asked a question about this I thought I'd elaborate on what Critical Mass is. Here's what it says on their website: "Critical mass is not an organization, it's an unorganized coincidence. It's a movement ... of bicycles, in the streets." When I ride with them they stop in the middle of big intersections sometimes, hold their bikes over their heads, and chant "Who owns the streets? The people own the streets."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this a shot outside of Starbucks in Cambridge i the morning?...dad

jay said...

Actually this is around 7:30 pm or later, and I think it was next to a small market, but I don't remember (it could have been a starbucks?). We were riding with critical mass bike riders -- about 200 (?) of us or so. We started around 6 at Copley and rode all through Boston and Cambridge. Somewhere after Harvard Square we got split up, and here we were stopping to rejoin with the other group.