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San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005. Critical Mass is a form of direct action in which people travel as a group on bicycles at a set location and time. The idea is for people to group together to make it safe for each other to ride bicycles through their streets, based on the old adage: there's safety in numbers.
On July 25, 2008, Critical Mass prevented a motorist from driving from a curbside parking space into cyclists [78] in Seattle's Critical Mass on East Aloha. The motorist made statements to Seattle police that he drove away, hitting bicycles and riders (one of them an attorney), [ 79 ] [ 80 ] and told the press that he "freaked out and ...
Critical Mass Melbourne [1] is an informal grass roots collection of people who gather to take part in the month's Critical Mass event, which is a cycling event typically held in various cities throughout the world on the last Friday of every month, for traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes. The rides in Melbourne began in ...
Critical Mass, Time's Square, last Friday of every Month thousands of bicyclists lifted their bikes to demand Time's square become Auto Free: group bike rides helped increase cycling and put pressure on the city for sustainable infrastructure.
Critical Mass (cycling), a form of direct action or celebratory gathering involving large groups of bicycle riders; Critical Mass (pressure group), a UK political pressure group; Critical Mass Energy Project, an anti-nuclear umbrella group founded by Ralph Nader Critical Mass Journal, published in 1977 by the Critical Mass Energy Project
San Jose Bike Party at a regroup point on May 17, 2019. San Jose Bike Party differentiates itself from protest rides such as nearby San Francisco's Critical Mass. Bike Party is a social event, not a protest. [11] [4] The organization encourages riders to ride safely, obey rules of the road and set a good example for others as much as possible ...
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The World Bike Forum was organized in 2012 after the Critical Mass events in Porto Alegre in which an automobile driver deliberately collided with and injured around 20 cyclists. [13] During the Forum bicycle-based urban mobility is discussed and strategies to spread the use of bicycles in the hosting city are promoted.