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May 01, 2005
Newsday: 34 arrested in Critical Mass bike ride
From NY Newsday
BY LINDSAY FABER
A total of 34 people were arrested at Friday night's Critical Mass ride, the 12th anniversary of the movement, police said.The 20 men and 14 women arrested were issued desk appearance tickets, police said.
The first warm-weather ride of the season, which happened to fall on the event's birthday, may have attracted twice as many riders, about 400, than the other monthly rides this year.
Though Critical Mass has been without incident since its inception , the publicity surrounding it has surged since last August's Republican National Convention, when a highly-publicized ride drew several thousand people and resulted in more than 100 arrests.
Since then, organizers of the event have wrangled with the Police Department, whose position is that the riders regularly violate traffic laws and parade without permit.
The continuing duel between the two sides has even made its way to a federal courtroom. In December, a federal judge dismissed the city's effort to force cyclists to obtain permits before the ride.
On Friday night, communicating via cell phone, the riders kicked off the event from various spots in Manhattan, including Union Square, Madison Square and Tompkins Square Park, possibly in an attempt to evade police. In the past, the riders set out together from Union Square.
The monthly promotion of pollution-free transportation occurs the last Friday of every month.
Geez - that last sentence is awfully risky! Doesn't Newsday know it's a crime to promote this thing?
Posted by at May 1, 2005 12:22 AM
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