[van-announce] New Years Eve Eve Critical Mass

[Critical Mass Vancouver]

yes, a rainy small mass of riders
together conquer the streets of vancouver
one last time in 2005

bicycles, skates and various self propelled
New Year's Eve Eve Critical Mass Ride and Roll
Friday, December 30, 2005

Meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery
on the Georgia Street side between 5:00
and 5:30 p.m., roll out 6:00 p.m.
Silliness encouraged.

http://www.velolove.bc.ca
velolove at velolove.bc.ca

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It's been one Crazy Year!

The stupid Burrard St Bridge:
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=14841

We need to stop the plans for another highway in East Van:
http://cche.vcn.bc.ca/
http://www.livableregion.ca/

And in West Van too:
http://www.eagleridgebluffs.ca/

They're already doing the RAV.

All this Olympic Nonsense is worth scrutiny:
http://www.2010watch.com/

There were some pretty cool achievements this year, June's Car-free 
Commercial Drive Festival was amazing 
http://www.commercialdrivefestival.org/ even if the City organised first 
World Car Free Day was only lukewarm http://onedayvancouver.ca/ [though 
awesome concept].

Amazing street hockey too: http://www.dotank.org/crosspedestrians/

Carmen Mills Remembering CM over the years:
http://www.shared-vision.com/2005/sv1812/tidelines1812.html#1

NYC CM has been exciting/scary lately:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/27/1443258
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/27/1444202

"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, 
since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember 
them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses 
you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven 
through as you gain by riding a bicycle."

- Ernest Hemingway, By-Line

Have a good New Year!
http://vancouvercm.blogspot.com