[*BCM*] Politics

[Basil Sharpe]

Come to Boston and ride with Critical Mass with about 150 to 250 other
cyclists!   Not only a credible scene but an incredibly fun
time..........

Organizations that you speak of are indeed useful and I thank heavens
for them but don't underestimate  the credibility of CM.   By sheer
number of riders riding, CM has played a highly credible role in
exposing people and officials of Boston to cycling.  It's just a start
but it's cycling in action

 

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[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of
rawillis3 at juno.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Politics

 

it's funny, I guess, I was going to say I have been a sporadic "lurker"
on this thread, having really just looked in in time to case this latest
exchange, could you conform, brick in the window, very eloquent on both
sides.  in St. Louis the CM scene, never very large, sort of fell apart
a couple of years ago when the one individual who had tried to power it
up as an import from Chicago left to join the San Fransisco scene.  I
was a frequent participant during his tenure, and have not joined in the
fledgling efforts of some college students to revive it.  but several of
the people who were massers then are now the founding board members of
the St. Louis Regional Bicycle Federation.  in our daily lives we have
returned to quiet transportational cycling, engaging individual
motorists in occasional dialogue, often just as angry as the next guy,
but we are trying something a little more glacial, meeting with roads
departments and legislators and police and prosecutors on a civil basis
and with some pretense at least of credibility.

 

R.

 

 

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