CRITICAL MASS DUBLIN - FEB 23 (vs. MIJAG)

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday February 11, 2002 13:18 by path rhizomix at hotmail dot com

Next Dublin Critical Mass

The next Dublin Critical Mass is taking place on Saturday February 23rd (the last Saturday of the month). Assembly point as always is the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, at 2pm. Bring your bike and any whistles, flags, horns or whatever you think adds colour and noise! We hand out leaflets promoting cycling as a healthy, green, relaxing alternative to gridlock and road rage!

This will be the last Critical Mass on a Saturday until much later on in the year. In March we will be reverting to the standard 'last Friday of the month at 6pm' when its brighter, I think the clocks go forward in mid March so this will help the Mass even more.

Also, just with reference to MIJAGuar's campaign. I was down in Cork on Saturday but regrettably I had to get a train back in the early afternoon, so I didnt get a chance to see their 'Car Rally', which they had extensively postered around the city. I was genuinely interested in heading along along to the Lee Fields where they were assembling and having a discussion/argument with the organisers and their supporters (does anyone know if they got a crowd down?)

If MIJAG hold a car rally in Dublin then I think the Critical Mass should get together and hold a counter rally on the same day. The CM is all about promoting cycling as a real alternative to motoring. I saw a MIJAG car rally a good while ago and their supporter epitomised everything I hate about flash young motorists. Boot spoilers, low racing skirts, tinted windows, chrome exhausts, fuel injection, go faster stripes, sporting alloys, silver plated gearsticks, total status symbols, the type of car that can reach 0-60 in 10 seconds, and the drivers normally test that ratio on suburban and urban roads.