Leeds Critical Mass
Event date: August 27, 2010 17:30
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Tagged as: critical_mass cycling environmentalism
Millenium Square
Places: leeds millenium_sq
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On the ride
Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road, happening on the last Friday of every month in hundreds of cities and towns around the world.
We meet at 5.30pm in Millennium Square. We ride through Leeds for 30 mins to an hour, where cyclists are often considered second class road users. We are vulnerable on a bike but together we are stronger. Read more about the Leeds critical mass in this Indymedia article.
We hope to raise awareness for:
- the benefits of cycling
- the need for more buses
- the need for more cycle lanes
- cutting down the need for driving
- cycling is fun
It is not about making cars go slowly behind us it is a creative celebration of cycling trying to encourage the cars stuck in traffic to join us:
Critical Mass isn't BLOCKING traffic - We ARE Traffic.
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cyclist
using the word cyclist implies that we don't use other modes of transport. We are not fighting for a minority group 'cyclists' but we are promoting cycling as a mode of transport to be used by everyone who is able.