<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Mars <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martian@mit.edu" target="_blank">martian@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think it's fair to say that the message received (as as this action is the sole reason I stopped riding with CM) by motorists is a clear "ha ha fuck you". It is my opinion that this type of behavior is doing nothing but making cycling conditions in Boston MUCH worse. Thanks, and good job.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Some of us don't see it that way. Did you catch this? <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rebecca Albrecht</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralbrecht@speakeasy.net">ralbrecht@speakeasy.net</a>><br></span>Date: Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 85, Issue 3<br>To: <a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br> I am<br>uncomfortable with the circling at the intersection of Comm.Ave.&<br>
Harvard Street & I usually leave at that point since I am close to my<br>home. It’s a big intersection that requires corking for about seven<br>lanes of traffic so I understand the empowerment that is felt to have<br>
those streets for a short period of time. I found it interesting that<br>the video clip of the corking at the July CM ride was 34 seconds long.<br>My guess is that the bike riders were there at most for one minute. Not<br>
an awfully long time for cars to be held up except of course it was<br>bicycles that were obstructing them. In general very few cars are<br>affected by CM on the vast expanse of our city streets. There have been<br>a few times when I had been in my car during CM & I had hoped that our<br>
paths would cross. Most people seem happy to see us and give us high<br>fives or a friendly toot on their car horns. Car drivers need to chill<br>out because CM passes fairly quickly but some car drivers are rude & hey<br>
they just ruin it for all of us more tolerant, fun-loving car drivers!</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>However you see the message, there is no way that a group of anyone drawing attention to themselves and asserting their rights is going to lead to worse conditions. Not unless we happen to live in a repressive fascist state, which we don't. </div>
<div><br></div><div>And what would you have us do, then? Crowd on to the road alongside the cars like we do every day? Split the ride into small, un-assertable groups at every stop light? What is your vision for a better, bike-friendlier Boston and how do you propose we get there? <br>
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