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Where is Nottingham Critical Mass heading?

Concerned Cyclist | 28.01.2006 20:12 | Culture | Ecology

Having attended the Critical Mass rides in Nottingham for the last year, I really started wondering what it is all about after the ride this last Friday. I find the rides choatic, stressful and dangerous. It's dark, wet and friday night and I don't think Critical Mass should just be about blocking traffic for the sake of it. People in the ride should stick together and we should make sure everyone's ok. At the moment the route is unclear. At each junction people in the front of the ride argue and shout at each other and it all just feels like hard work and not really enjoyable. Why do we continue to go down the widest roads where we continue having the same kind of accidents, month after month? If we were enough that would be great. But I don't think we are.



The Critical Mass is supposed to be a celebration of cycling and other forms of non-polluting transport. It should be creative, positive, colorful, engaging. There should be music, dance, costumes, flags, banners, sillyness and should be inviting for new people to get involved with. It should be a way for people to get engaged with issues in a creative and positive way. It should be about informing people why we do what we do and make sure we're noticed for that.

Critical Mass should be exciting and fun. Let's make sure it is.

More info about Critical Mass, please visit:  http://www.critical-mass.org/

Concerned Cyclist

Comments

Display the following 18 comments

  1. More light! — Joe Public
  2. comment on the comment — lenton cyclist
  3. TOWN OF BEDROCK — Joe Peblican
  4. Spontaneity and leaderlessness of Critical Mass — Freewheeling Frieda
  5. raising drivers' awareness ? — Concerned Cyclist
  6. Critical smash. — anne onymous
  7. Why Friday night really sucked the big one — Boy On A Bike
  8. Posting on Indymedia — Notts IMC person
  9. stop splitting shut up — joanne public
  10. Tone down hysteria already! — somebody
  11. media — - -
  12. critical smash? — somebody else
  13. "Tone down hysteria" says somebody who wasn't there!? — Boy On A Bike
  14. These motorists are our target? — Experienced Critical Mass Cyclist
  15. On reflection — Boy On A Bike
  16. starting to accept J's position? — don't make me laugh
  17. Hidden comments — Notts IMC person
  18. The piccys — Tash