Further in the article it stated that it was a group of 3,000 bikers. I would assume the roads were blocked for bikes only, if not that could be a huge problem.
Was talking to an SFPD friend of mine last night about Critical Mass. He told me that the SFPD (never in public, of course), call them “the a**holes”. They are made up of the most obnoxious people in SF. They ignore the rules of the road (all while claiming that they have the same rights as motorists), They run red lights, ride on the sidewalks, mow down pedestrians at crossings, hold up traffic and generally act like spoiled children.
The leaders are a hard core group of bike messengers who, even when they aren’t in Critical Mass, habitually flip off the police as they are weaving through downtown traffic knowing that the cops in the cars can’t chase them.
They’re just thugs.
Further in the article it stated that it was a group of 3,000 bikers. I would assume the roads were blocked for bikes only, if not that could be a huge problem”
The roads are NOT blocked, as far as I know. THAT is the major part of the problem. These “cyclists” are looking for a fight, and are deliberately trying to shut down the city traffic with their overwhelming numbers. They are trying to force more people to ride cycles to work instead of driving or using mass transit. They are a bunch of second-rate hippies/envirofreaks who think that we all should be riding bicycles. I think they all should be deported to China for 2 years. Let them see up close what that is like. I don’t know if they ride a cycle the rest of the week, but they are getting more than a little intimidating with Critical Mass.
Since it is San Francisco, the city government will do nothing, which will give them more spunk to get more and more thuggish in their behavior, IMO.