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Consider yourself invited to...
A BERGEN COUNTY CRITICAL MASS RIDE
Friday October 28th
meet at Van Neste Square in Ridgewood, NJ at 5:30
After the ride, everyone is invited to a free vegan picnic that prepared by Bergen County Food Not Bombs.
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What is Critical Mass?
A Critical Mass of cyclists occurs when bicyclists come together to ride the ordinarily car-clogged streets of their towns and cities. Critical Mass focuses on the rights of bicyclists and the rights of pedestrians on their own streets. Cyclists are just as much traffic and have just as much right to be on the roads as anyone else. It also brings attention to the deteriorating quality of life, like the toxic levels of air and noise pollution, that cars create for the places we live. Cars clog up the streets every day, so cyclists should be able to do the same.
Critical Mass' aim is to make people take notice of cyclists as road users. Although some obstruction of traffic occurs, we are only seeking to raise the profile of cycling, and put cycling and environmental issues on the agenda so that they will not be ignored.
Most importantly, Critical Mass is a monthly celebration of bicycling and asserting cyclists' right to the road.
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Is Critical Mass illegal?
Think of it as rush hour on bicycles. We're not blocking traffic, we are traffic. But so many bicycles riding together, as well as a beautiful sight to see, can sometimes slow automobile traffic down to human levels.
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Critical Mass is an idea and an event, not an organization. Critical Mass has no leaders, and no
central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals simply picked a date, time, and location for the ride and publicized it, and thus the ride was born.