[*BCM*] tonight's ride

[Hiroyuki Yamada]

While I agree with you, Jim, that there may not have been an actual 
legal case behind the police's stop (and possible arrest? I don't know, 
I didn't find the mass until it passed through kenmore headed east), the 
legality of an action and whether or not it is a good idea are generally 
unrelated. (And if they are correlated, it still does not imply 
causation by one or the other)

http://www.car-accidents.com/2007-auto-crash-story/4-21-07-motor.html

As a student at MIT, that alone is pretty upsetting -- and although it 
may not be entirely related to bicycles or critical mass, it still shows 
that Storrow Drive is not exactly a safe-haven for vehicles. And, like I 
said -- I wasn't there tonight, but I have made the mistake of pulling 
onto storrow (a ways back when I was new to Boston area roads) on a bike 
and woefully regretted it. It's a very fast, very traffic-y road. 
Neither of those factors make for a GOOD biking experience, and combined 
I would have to say that they make a terrible one. (Same is true of 
McGrath Highway -- I think that's what it is called -- over in 
Somerville, maybe Rt 28? Very fast, badly lit, and full of traffic... 
Made the mistake of getting onto that a couple times too)

That said, the rest of the ride tonight was pretty fun. It took me a 
while to track you all down, and involved a lot of tooling through 
chinatown and I think at least one full circle of the common, but  we 
eventually found you. I brought two CM virgins along with me and both 
said they had a great time. Thanks to all that came out and made it fun!

--Yuki

Jim Leonard wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:33:53PM -0400, David St.Germain wrote:
>   
>> Riding on Storrow Drive at night was a bozo move.  Frankly, I'm  
>> surprised the cops didn't do more than stop a few folks.  What kind of  
>> solidarity would you have liked?  Should the entire mass have stopped  
>> in the middle of Storrow and yelled at the cop?  We're not talking  
>> about a human rights march here -- the idiots at the front of the mass  
>> decided to risk endangering the rest of the riders, and if they get  
>> tickets as a consequence, too bad.
>>     
>
> Except that (assuming I'm not mistaken in my history, please correct me if I'm wrong) courts have already agreed that bicycles are allowed on Storrow.  Unless there's some other reason why you say it's a bozo move.
>
> --jim
>
>   
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 22:59 , jennifer thomson wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> hey all,
>>>
>>> just wanted to say that tonight's ride was awesome.  especially  
>>> riding on storrow!
>>>
>>> however, it wasn't ok that the ride abandoned the people who got  
>>> stopped by the cop on storrow.  we need a lot more solidarity in  
>>> situations like these.
>>>
>>> jennifer
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