[Imc-newsroom] another headline, possible audio for Monday's radio show

[Paul Riismandel]

As a good, but sad, accompaniment to Danielle's suggested headline about 
the Lawrence, KS Reclaim the Streets is the following story from the 
Madison Critical Mass:

Posted to U-C IMC 
(http://www.ucimc.org/front.php3?article_id=1878&group=webcast)

"Madison's Critical Mass bicycle ride ended last Friday evening with the 
arrest of one rider, who was cited & released. He was charged with "failure 
to obey an officer's signal" and "impeding traffic." According to an 
eyewitness account, the Critical-Mass ride met significant harassment from 
motorists, where one rider reportedly was bumped by a car stopped at an 
intersection.  Shortly thereafter police followed the ride making several 
attempts to stop it, creating a significant traffic disruption in the 
process.  One rider was arrested after police managed to separate the Mass, 
while roughly fifty cyclists looked on."

An audio report is available on the Madison IMC here: 
http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=950&group=webcast

One might add the following:

"On the other hand the Urbana-Champaign Critical-Mass ride went off with 
few problems last Friday without a hitch.  A mass of about 30 bicyclists 
rode a loop through the streets of the twin cities, demonstrating the right 
of bicycles to share the streets with cars and other motorized 
vehicle.  Aside from jeers from a few bystanders and one car that attempted 
to cut into the middle of the mass, the riders of Critical Mass met little 
resistance in their ride, and were not harassed by police.

Critical Mass is a worldwide movement joining bicyclists together in an 
effort to show that bikes are good, sustainable transportation that have a 
right to use the road.

The local Critical Mass rides the last Friday of every month at 5:15, 
meeting at the Alma Mater in Campustown.  The next ride is Friday, Sept. 29."