<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Jim,<br><br>Have you ever been on Storrow Drive?<br>Cars drive super fast. I've never seen a bike on Storrow and there is a very good <br>reason for this. Most people aren't stupid enough to ride on it.<br>I can't imagine that the Boston city police would make this route open for bikes.<br>Taking the larger group on Storrow is a huge mistake and I would hope you would <br>rethink your position.<br><br><br>M<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Leonard <jim_bcm@xuth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Boston Critical Mass
<list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 31, 2008 11:14:31 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [*BCM*] tonight's ride<br></font><br>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:33:53PM -0400, David St.Germain wrote:<br>> Riding on Storrow Drive at night was a bozo move. Frankly, I'm <br>> surprised the cops didn't do more than stop a few folks. What kind of <br>> solidarity would you have liked? Should the entire mass have stopped <br>> in the middle of Storrow and yelled at the cop? We're not talking <br>> about a human rights march here -- the idiots at the front of the mass <br>> decided to risk endangering the rest of the riders, and if they get <br>> tickets as a consequence, too bad.<br><br>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.<br><br>--jim<br><br>> <br>> Dave<br>> <br>> <br>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 22:59 , jennifer thomson
wrote:<br>> <br>> > hey all,<br>> ><br>> > just wanted to say that tonight's ride was awesome. especially <br>> > riding on storrow!<br>> ><br>> > however, it wasn't ok that the ride abandoned the people who got <br>> > stopped by the cop on storrow. we need a lot more solidarity in <br>> > situations like these.<br>> ><br>> > jennifer<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>> > <a ymailto="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org" href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>> > To unsubscribe email <a ymailto="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org"
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