[*BCM*] Thoughts, or what was the thinking at MIT and....

[Hiroyuki G Yamada]

Keep In mind though, that MIT wasn't in session at this point -- Finals 
were over the 21st and most people students gone by the 22nd or 23rd. The 
remaining grad students etc were probably a minuscule proportion of the 
usual traffic in the infinite corridor and this was probably taken into 
consideration when the ride through MIT was suggested. Also, with only 30 
riders (if the article is to be trusted on that count) it also wouldn't 
have been as bad. Probably not the best of ideas on a friday in the middle 
of term, with 300+ riders, to go traipsing through a corridor, but in that 
particular instance, I can't imagine that it was too much trouble.

As for the article, it sounds like he wanted to get as "good" of an 
article out (his standard for good might have been exciting or "wham pow," 
vs an actual editorially accurate and well-written piece) with as little 
work -- just trolling around on wikipedia could have given him the 
information he posted. Given how responsive Boston's CM list was, it 
certainly seems that he could have gotten a more in-depth look at our 
particular ride.

(Perhaps written up a blurb about the arrest over at Harvard Square in the 
(I think) October ride?)

--Yuki

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jon Ramos wrote:

> I missed the December ride due to my broken right hand, (bicycle accident, hit by a car on Tremont St) but I have to say that I am appalled that the group rode through a building.  Corking traffic, and giving angry motorists 'the business' is one thing, because we have a right to be there etc, etc... but inside a building?  that's just not cool.  There is no place in a corridor for a pedestrian to get out of the way from a bicycle, in that situation we are analogous to cars driving down bike lanes & sidewalks.  We dont have a right to be there.  The December ride sounds like it may have been fun, but really it just made CM riders look like real a-holes.
>
> - Jon
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dan Barrett <dbx at pobox.com>
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> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 12:15:19 PM
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> The article reminded me of my long-held desire to ride through the Star
> Market in Porter Square.
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