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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Come to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>
and ride with Critical Mass with about 150 to 250 other cyclists!
Not only a credible scene but an incredibly fun time..........<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Organizations that you speak of are indeed useful and I thank heavens
for them but don't underestimate the credibility of CM. </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>By
sheer number of riders riding, CM has played a highly credible role in exposing
people and officials of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>
to cycling. It's just a start but it's cycling in action<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org
[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of rawillis3@juno.com<br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:02 AM<br>
To: list@bostoncriticalmass.org<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Politics</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>R.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Boston Critical Mass</span></font></st1:PersonName>
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