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Maybe you’re longing to see the streets of your city free of cars, but you’re waiting for the mayor to declare a carfree day. Or maybe you’ve thought about eliminating the car traffic from your favourite intersection by having a Reclaim the Streets party, but, like me, you live in a place where automobile right-of-way [...]
The infamous “manif spaciale” developed by the Montreal group Le Monde à Bicyclette stands as one of their favourite types of demos.
First, there is the humour of it—a bicycle taking up so much space is kind of ridiculous. And that is precisely the point: why take up so much space to move one person around? [...]
I live in Budapest, where there are a few good bicycle paths, a few bad ones, and thousands of drivers who think the streets and even pavements (sidewalks) were built only for them. When cycling and walking in town, one frequently has to deal with cars parked all over the pavements and the bicycle paths, [...]
Direct action doesn’t have to be just about blockading or marching down the street chanting. Or even just about Critical Mass and Reclaim the Streets. Imagination can be the antidote to boring predictability, and can keep your targets on their toes, or at least thinking “huh?” To get your creative juices flowing, here’s a few ideas.
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