Point Loma was invaded Friday night (Sept. 25) by a Critical Mass bike ride.\u00a0 We were traveling southbound on Rosecrans when 1,000-plus bikes came out of Liberty Station making a left turn onto Rosecrans. The mass went through at least 10 red-light cycles, which meant they blocked off law-abiding citizens from at least 10 green cycles.\u00a0 A few San Diego Police Department cruisers were apparently escorting them as the mass repeatedly broke the law.\u00a0 Ironically, on the Critical Mass website the group touts that it is promoting obeying the law to traditional vehicle drivers.\u00a0 A very odd premise; watch us break the law so you\u2019ll be inspired to obey it later!?!?!?!?! They meet the last Friday (http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/criticalmassride) of every month in Balboa Park \u2014 shouldn\u2019t be too tough for SDPD to get the ticketing troops out (ironically Saturday\u2019s Union-Tribune showed a mounted officer giving a motorist a ticket; send the cavalry after them!!).\u00a0 I can\u2019t see why they are allowed to keep violating traffic safety laws and block off city streets. I couldn\u2019t set up a stickball tournament or a street fair closing a public street without permits and paying for city costs. Why can (apparently) Critical Mass do so?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll generate letters: \u2022\u00a0lecturing me on how great bike-riding is for the environment \u2013 I agree;\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0on how dangerous the roads are for bike riders \u2013 I agree, and worry about my 7th-grader who bike rides five days a week to and from Correia Middle School and who witnessed\u00a0 1,000 adult bike riders breaking the law; and \u2022\u00a0on Critical Mass\u2019 right to hold special events \u2014 once again, I agree, just get a permit, pay your fees and reimburse city costs and post the route ahead of time so I can plan accordingly. I think I\u2019m in support of the cause.\u00a0 It is the illegal, selfish, rude, dangerous and illogical execution of Critical Mass\u2019 information strategy that I very much disagree with.\u00a0 Keep the message; change the delivery.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Point Loma was invaded Friday night (Sept. 25) by a Critical Mass bike ride.\u00a0 We were traveling southbound on Rosecrans when 1,000-plus bikes came out of Liberty Station making a left turn onto Rosecrans. The mass went through at least 10 red-light cycles, which meant they blocked off law-abiding citizens from at least 10 green […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Critical Mass biker group flaunted common courtesy, law","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}