<DIV>Personally I would support any group that would start campaining and campaining HARD for the sort of bike lane system they have in Amsterdam so that it would be a lot safer for people to commute by bike, which would in turn inspire more people to do it. Here in Cambridge, we have some bike lanes, but they occur and often just end in random places, which makes it really hard to make use of them. The infrequency of them in turn just adds to the public perception that bikes should only be in bike lanes, which seems to make drivers more aggro when they see me out of them.</DIV>
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<DIV>I hear a lot about Mass Bike campaigns, and in terms of what they *say* I support them, but nothing ever really seems to get acheived, which is why I stopped contributing and instead funnelled the money into stamps to write my local politicos and hound them directly.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anne<BR><BR><B><I>Pete Stidman <pstidman@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hey I'm writing a story for Indymedia about this<BR>announcement that MassBike will be opening a Metro<BR>Boston Chapter. <BR><BR>How do people on this list feel about it?<BR><BR>Will they be able to affect change here in Boston?<BR><BR>Can you imagine a different sort of group, one<BR>separate from MassBike?<BR><BR>What kind of group would y'all support??<BR><BR><BR><BR>__________________________________ <BR>Do you Yahoo!? <BR>Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. <BR>http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Boston Critical Mass mailing list<BR>list@bostoncriticalmass.org<BR>http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><DIV>
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