SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Sometimes, no words are necessary. Just watch the video. Video credit: Chaedria LaBouvier
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PRIVATE CARS TO STAGE WEEKLY CRITICAL MASS PROTESTS IN STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – The City of San Francisco has waged an all-our war against private motorists.
First, San Francisco painted the middle lanes of its main streets red to indicate that they were for buses and taxis only. Next, the city painted the curb-side lanes on either direction green to indicate they were for bicycles only. Now, private car drivers, including ride sharing drivers from Uber and Lyft, can’t turn left or right on Market Street.
Well, private car owners have just about had it.
Remember Critical Mass? It is a mass bicycle ride that takes place on the last Friday of each month in San Francisco. It is a form of protest to uphold bicyclists’ rights.
Beginning next week, private car owners, joined by Uber and Lyft drivers, will stage their own critical mass, not just once a month but every week, on Mondays. It is their way of protesting the fact that they are slowly but surely being phased out of San Francisco’s streets.
Like the bicycle critical mass, the motorists will drive around city streets, en masse, with no specific destination. Their intention is to clog the streets and create a traffic nightmare for buses, taxis and bicycles, not to mention a big headache for the city’s bureaucrats.
“It is time we take the power away from bicyclists and fight for our own rights,” an Uber motorist said. “Cyclists don’t need to get a license or pay taxes and fees like we do, so why are we being denied use of the streets that are paid for by our dollars?” he added.
To learn more about the Car Critical Mass, go to http://www.WeWantOurStreetsBackOrElse.com
BICYCLISTS WANT TO [OVER]RULE SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – They already have their own green-painted lanes in the streets of San Francisco. Now they also want immunity from traffic enforcement.
A San Francisco bike group unhappy with a crackdown on cyclists who run stop signs is protesting the law by obeying it in critical mass style.
On Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., the bicycle advocacy group, Wigg Party, plans to ride the Wiggle route, a popular San Francisco thoroughfare, in single file and stop at every single stop sign. The goal? To create an inevitable traffic jam for bikers and motorists alike.
It’s bad enough that half the lanes in each direction on the city’s major thoroughfares are already reserved for buses and taxis, but now private cars have to share the other half with bicyclists. It has turned San Francisco streets into a hodge-podge of red and green lanes, with private cars caught in between.
The Wigg Party argues that motorists should be taking mass public transportation instead of driving their cars in the city. “Well and good, ” a motorist argued back, “except that riding a bicycle is hardly considered mass transportation either.”
But bicyclists sure know how to rule the streets and overrule San Francisco’s laws. Through critical mass.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has threatened that if the bicyclists don’t behave, he will have to deputize the Dykes on Bikes to enforce San Francisco’s laws. Yeah, who needs the National Guard?
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