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This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It's not legal, but protests are never useful if they're fully legal now, are they.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

It doesn't matter if a protest is legal. The word you're looking for is "non violent"

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Imo it looks remarkably safe as long as we ignore the person in the car driving into oncoming traffic.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

No but see youre responsible for all the actions of people who want to kill you.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

This looks like Miami. If it is.. critical mass usually has a police force in the loop they do usually to stop people driving right through the crowd. The loop is posted online about a week before and there is always police presence

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[-] [email protected] 138 points 3 days ago

Car brains are incapable of realizing that they're the deadly threat.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Dangerous to drivers"

Because you're going to give yourself an aneurysm over a minor inconvenience? You're in a giant suit of armor. You could hit every single one of those cyclists without sustaining even a scratch.

If the cyclists were actually dangerous to drivers, do you think the diver would be accelerating aggressively towards them?

[-] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago

Whenever I've been on a Critical Mass ride, we've always had designated "corkers", people whose job it was to block traffic with blockading/dancing/whatever while the others continued onward. Without people doing that, you run the risk of this sort of carbrained nonsense.

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago

Idk about the usa but here in europe its EXPLICITLY written into the drivers code that even if someone is driving illegaly if its in your power to stop an accident you have to. So if a person steps in front of you randomly and you have half a second to react thats usually not your fault BUT if you for example saw that there was a school bus dropping kids off and then you hit a child running across the road theres a large chance that theyre gonna charge you. Of course in europe you have to put like 30 hours into theory and then a lot of driving lessons to get a license while in the usa you basically get a drivers license instantly and nobody gives a fuck so thats why people dont know the rules...

[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago

To add, in the Netherlands, known for it's stellar bike infrastructure it's exactly with actions like this that they reclaimed their cities from being purely car oriented.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

This is a CM?

I have never been to a CM with oncoming lane blocked (or in this case - not really blocked).

Also where are the corkers?

[-] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago

"Everyone except me is crazy."

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago

Confused Portlander here. Why are these bikers fully clothed?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

After last years was cancelled, I wasn't sure if was happening this year. Apparently, a split in the org means there will be two this year.

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