Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Critical Mass

A Cycling Congress in Mexico

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Respect me: I am also traffic! Guadalajara, Mexico was host this month to the 2nd annual Congress of Cyclists in Mexico, a national gathering of bicyclist activists from around the country. I was invited to give a speech, which I somehow managed to do in Spanish (thanks to my media naranja for translating and coaching […]

Wreckless Riding

By Chris Carlsson | Aug 7, 2009 | 22 Comments

Photo by Bryan Goebel. In 1978 I was a field manager for an environmental group’s canvassing operation and was driving "my crew" in an old beat-up Volkswagon from one suburb to the next. From about 3 p.m. we’d visit every house in a given area, knocking on doors seeking donations and support, ending around 8:30 […]

Is Sunday Streets the Next Critical Mass?

By Dave Snyder | Jul 22, 2009 | 22 Comments

Flickr photo: Michael Bolger Though it occurred for just four hours on two miles of streets in the Mission, this week’s Sunday Streets event has transformed the livable streets movement in some of the same ways that Critical Mass transformed San Francisco’s bicycle rights movement in the early 1990s. “Even better than Critical Mass,” was […]

CBS 5’s Joe Vazquez Has a Critical Math Problem

By Chris Carlsson | May 7, 2009 | 20 Comments

Critical Mass, March 2009. Photo by Bryan Goebel. I got a call a week ago from the SF Bike Coalition‘s media person. She was looking for someone to talk to Joe Vazquez of CBS 5, a reporter who was going to do a piece on Critical Mass. I declined, having been interviewed far too often […]

Moralism vs. Utopianism–of Red Lights, Helmets, Bike Lanes and…

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 23, 2009 | 40 Comments

Flickr photo: Dear Knucklehead The Oregon Legislature has flushed an effort to bring the Idaho rolling stop law to that state. It’s a bit of a surprise, given both the simple and proven efficacy of allowing cyclists to make rolling stops, as well as Oregon’s big reputation as a bastion of cycling sanity. I’ve been […]

The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate

By Matthew Roth | Mar 27, 2009 | 8 Comments

As soothsayers of the Sacred RAC priesthood like Rob Anderson will let you know time and again on his own blog, and sometimes on ours, all this talk of bike plans, Level-of-Service reform, parking restrictions in new development, and greening boulevards is nothing more than a thinly-veiled assault on our national right to drive freely […]

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