[Org4j-announce] Bike reclaim the streets TONITE Critical Mass Ottawa
Organizing 4Justice
org4justice at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 09:35:35 PDT 2018
URGENT - please share!
Critical Mass group #ottbike ride tonite after yesterday's collision, meet
us at 6:30pm @ Sherwood & Holland to demand safer streets & bike
infrastructure. The regular meetup 5:45 @ Confederation Park will ride to
Sherwood/Holland for 6:30
Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2894058883
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/GregEqEd/status/1045697790389768197
Poster
(attached)
** This was the ride in July to ask the city to make the road safer
https://twitter.com/BikeOttawa/status/1020685551186382848
And these are the injuries from yesterday:
"Directly due to the Harmer overpass being closed with no safe bike lane
arranged to replace it,a half ton truck did this to Sylvia Smith while she
was riding her #ottbike yesterday on Holland.
If only someone had warned the City this could happen..."
https://twitter.com/evanthornton/status/1045627461927497729
What is Critical Mass :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)
= a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month; its
purpose is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a
set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets
on bikes.
The event originated in 1992 in San Francisco; by the end of 2003, the
event was being held in over 300 cities around the world. [...]
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