OPINION: Critical Mass is 30 – and the spokes are still spinning on what cities could be.
As I’ve been doing for the past 40 years, I shopped for my groceries today by bicycle, going first to the Farmer’s Market in UN Plaza and then to Rainbow Grocery on Division. Eventually, I was riding home with about 55 pounds of groceries, a typical Wednesday. I took the painted bike lane both ways on Folsom, as well as the separated green cycle path on Market between 11th and 7th streets.
Within a year of that first ride, the monthly “organized coincidence” had taken San Francisco by storm, with over 1,000 cyclists filling the streets. Similar rides soon erupted in Austin, Texas, Portland, New York and as far away as Poznán, Poland. This was before the World Wide Web was part of our everyday lives, so the rapid spread was due to phone calls and snail mail.
And that euphoria was contagious. It spread to over 400 cities around the world and is still going on several continents. Another funny thing happened over the years. What had exploded into popular consciousness and the political fabric of San Francisco as a political movement of bicyclists gradually diminished. Until one day, unnoticed by most, it simply vanished. Sure, there’s a formal organization called S.F.
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