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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:44:23 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How Many Bicyclists Does It Take, To Drive The Point???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970729082834.12456A-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <9707290748.AA23814@merlin.ukrv.de>

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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Udo Wolter wrote:

> > I am sure that a cyclists from San Francisco, California can explain
> > better. Once a month thousands of cyclists ride thru the City
> > in demonstration that the City is not safe for cyclists . 
> > 
> > The Major and the police feel that is not safe to be holding such
> > massive demonstration so we have a stand still 8)
> > 
> > It can get quite nasty if thousands of cyclists ride thru the 
> > city at peak commuters hours.
> 
> Can anyone give me a Web-link for it ? It's hard to understand without
> the full background what's really happened there. Did the police arrest
> them just because they were too many of them ? I don't think that there's
> a law about how many cyclists are allowed to ride on the street...

As a cyclist, I would say it is more like the police arrested them because
they can be a rowdy bunch of jerks who just want to be pests.  OTOH, I can
be cynical and I'm nowhere near SF.

http://cnn.com/US/9707/26/briefs/biker.protest.ap/index.html
http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9707/24/sanfran.bikes.ap/




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