now THAT i'd pay to see... (and i'm sorry this happened to your cousin.) i have a warped perspective, and wasted way too much time on learning how to hit shit when i was young. *shrug*
again i think the main value o f Critical Mass is that they draw attention to the situation, and point out that "hey, we have a legal right to ride, and be safe, and that's not happening, drivers are killing bicyclists, and pedestrians!"
it's a shame that we live in an economy where people are more or less forced to drive cars. i lived in california for about a year, and tried walking, and biking it.... it sucked ass, the buses in san diego suck moose balls. i could walk to work int he the time it took me to catch the bus.
the whole gas/car/oil economy thing is one the things that's going to seriously fuck up our country in the next few years... it's bad news.
bikes are one VERY sensible alternative. obviously not for everybody, but for a hell of alot of the folks out there commuting by bike would do them a world of good.
in every other industrialized nation they have light rail... 100 miles? you can go just about anywhere in the EU by train... in japan trains are a way of life... not perfect, but much more economical than private individually owned cars.
as another aside i LOVE driving, when i own cars. but it's too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. gas insurance, parking.... fuck all of that. i love riding my bike alot more, and i can't do that because of asshole drivers trying to kill me. didn't seem that way when i was a kid, but then again i didn't have cops trying to ticket me for riding onthe side walk when i was like 11 either.
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