Critical Mass

The legal action about Critical Mass has popped up on the BBC - the House of Lords hearing is next week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7667183.stm

So Friends of the Earth promote increased traffic congestion and so increased carbon emissions.


With friends like this, the earth doesn't need enemies.

unconventional methods of dismounting..

a horse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-4UphZjDCY

a bicycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ&eurl=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10001149-93.html

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So Friends of the Earth promote increased traffic congestion and so increased carbon emissions.

With friends like this, the earth doesn't need enemies.

Critcal Mass is the expresison of many individual cyclists writ large; effectively 'we don't care what impact we have on others'.

Critical Mass is a plague in San Francisco. There have been quite a few altercations in recent years. E.g., one cyclist claimed a soccer mom in a van with children "touched" his bike while trying to edge through an intersection, so he picked up his bike and attacked the van's windows, terrorizing the mother and children. It gets worse every month. You ain't seen nothin yet, London.

Let's not start this one all over again, please.

Does anyone know what the wine's like in Ev?

And why won't Waitrose open in the Elephant and Castle?

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Critcal Mass is the expression of many individual cyclists writ large; effectively 'we don't care what impact we have on others'.

No, I care what impact motorists have on me.

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And why won't Waitrose open in the Elephant and Castle?

Obvious really, its' easy cycling distance to TMS!

Waitrose! Waitrose! Waitrose!

Always dangerous to bump a thread about cycling, but there has been a ruling by the Law Lords:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7750004.stm