From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 29 09:29:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26676 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colossus.macromedia.com (host-159-82.macromedia.com [207.88.159.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26670 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colossus.macromedia.com (colossus.macromedia.com [207.3.38.189]) by colossus.macromedia.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08541; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:28:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:28:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Kurt Weiske To: Udo Wolter cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Many Bicyclists Does It Take, To Drive The Point??? In-Reply-To: <9707290748.AA23814@merlin.ukrv.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Critical Mass, the bicyclist group in San Francisco, rides once a month through rush-hour traffic to block the commute traffic and raise people's consciousness concerning bicycling, getting out of your car, &tc. - not just to make people aware of bike safety. The riders last week deviated from the "approved", secured route, and generally tried to make a nuisance of themselves. One group tried to ride onto a freeway and onto the Oakland-Bay bridge! 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... > > Bye, > Udo > > P.S.: A tough cyclist in Berlin. :-) > -- > Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de > !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://low-tech.home.ml.org !!! >