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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: May London Critical Mass. Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:25:57 -0700 (PDT) References: <31db5eb0-7741-40ca-a8dd-2494b36ed186@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>  <250b6d84-9f6b-43ce-8c91-01ecd2e25558@v2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 37 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243974367 20613 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2009 20:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2694 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:706665

On May 31, 3:38 pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009 07:14:31 -0700 (PDT), francis > > > >  wrote: > >On May 31, 11:32 am, Tom Crispin > > wrote: > >> On Sun, 31 May 2009 00:05:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug  > >> wrote: > > >> >Estimated over 1,000 riders. Interesting video, taken from Penny- > >> >farthing? > > >> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXbMdPKKvuc > > >> Very nice video, showing Critical Mass at its best. > > >Interesting video. > >Did the police instruct them to go through red lights, block traffic & > >drive through pedestrians crossing on their phase of the traffic > >lights? > > No need. > ========== > On Monday 20th October 2008 an appeal by Des Kay and Friends of the > Earth, against the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, was heard by > five Law Lords and their decision is that the appeal is allowed and CM > is a commonly or customarily held procession without organisers and > therefore does not need to inform the police of each ride. > ========== > A procession is able to hold up traffic.

Yeah, and I'm sure if a load of motorists decided to hold a "procession" in London each month then none of the car-haters would have any problem with it.