Thread started by sexy at 07.13.08 - 10:33 am

Big Rally at LA City Hall for cyclist rights. 12 noon Monday July 14, 2008

Lets make a big show for this one. The Media that you love to hate and watch will be there in large numbers.. After the rally we will storm the city hall to demand that the City Council recognize the Cyclist Bill of Right.

I know PC, we are asking Rich people permission to ride our bikes. No it is more then that, read theCyclist Bill of Right.. We are making a show to demonstrate how many of us there are. The bigger we are, the more serious they have to take us. A showing of big numbers says we mean business. not necessarily business, but bikeness. SRSY business BIKENESS!

These are the policy makers for the City of LA. Yes we can ride our bikes. We can also force them to have there transportation managers and designers, plan and make the roads safer and inviting for us growing number of cyclist. We want to make sure that they direct our city police to respect us, learn our rights to the road and respect our constitutional rights. We want the police to enforce laws that will protect us while we ride on the road.

THIS IS A CELEBRATION. IT IS ALSO OUR TIME TO DEMAND OUR RIGHTS AS CYCLIST.

PLEASE JOIN US.

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meet at Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd a top of the Red Line Station at 10:30am. We will ride at 11am to City Hall. It will be fun.



sexy
07.13.08 - 10:35 am

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is anybody going to this?



sexy
07.13.08 - 2:08 pm

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Me and mah baybay will be there.

We'll eat some mashed peas and carrots on the South Lawn for livebable streets. Also, they are delicious.






ubrayj02
07.13.08 - 3:17 pm

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I live downtown. I will meet you guys along the way. I'll bring a camera too.



stillline
07.13.08 - 5:18 pm

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I work in downtown. I'll try to get out at 12 and meet you guys there.



blackout_blacklung
07.13.08 - 6:12 pm

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yup. definitely going. have the day off and everything.

cylists bill of rights = awesome.

BWC!!!



ingipet
07.13.08 - 6:15 pm

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Some of you hippies made it in the paper.

http://dailynews.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=19647941&event=556348&CategoryID=0



stillline
07.14.08 - 3:48 pm

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in the LA times too.

Monday’s protest fell on Bastille Day, the day in 1789 that the French stormed the Bastille prison and launched the French Revolution. But the event at City Hall looked more like LA-palooza, with bicyclists, perennial gadfly Zuma Dogg in a sombrero and public school parent activist Sandra Tsing Loh dressed somewhat like the Statue of Liberty as she criticized the bureaucracy of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/07/saving-la.html



stillline
07.14.08 - 3:51 pm

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could't make it...how did it go?



MOM_RIDAZ420
07.14.08 - 4:42 pm

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Says Enci:

Great Day! Big Bike Dan led the charge with the music trailer; Stephen, Enci, Alex running, Matt, Patricia, Ingrid, Sexy Jr., Sexy Sr., Josef and offspring, some new guy, Ed, Mark, DJ Chickenleather, Moy, David, Sean, Rachel and a couple other cyclists attended.

We spoke to a crowd of around 200 and Joseph urged them to redefine the definition of transportation so that it includes all modes of travel including cyclists, not just motor vehicles. Alex spoke of the Freeway ride and about how sad it is that its safer to ride a bicycle on the freeway then it is on the street. Stephen introduced the Cyclists' Bill of Rights while Sexy Jr. and Sr. unfurled the 50' banner, and I spoke of the importance of putting people first and reminding them that cyclists are people just like motorists and pedestrians and we got to get along.

City Councilman Dennis Zine, City Controller Laura Chick, and several Neighborhood Council board members amongst others signed the Cyclists Bill of Rights. Woohoo!




SoapBoxLA
07.14.08 - 10:53 pm

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over all. I thought the thing was pretty stupid. A mish-mosh of different people with different issues directed at city official. Officals who where not around. There was plenty of media and lots of newspaper reporters and photographers (wasn't there a lot AT?).

The reason I was trying to encourage everybody to come out is to show how serious and organized we are. If we could get 20%- 33% (a fifth to a third) of people who come out to rides to come these events. Show up and pack the room (or in this case the yard), it will show how serious we are. That many people attending these events will leave an impression that we can't be ignored. If we could even have 10% of those that come to the 2nd Friday rides, come out to these events, we as cyclist will be taken more seriously. We would see the change that we want to make cycling more safe and friendly to all of us.

PLEASE COME OUT TO THESE EVENTS. We can change things around LA for our benefit. The more people that show up, the quicker it will happen.



sexy
07.14.08 - 11:49 pm

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Yeah what sexy said. More people. More action.





stillline
07.15.08 - 2:42 am

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The amount of notice and buss for these events was as much it is for the fun rides we would have a much better turn out.more flyers at rides,USE THE BULL HORN,more tall and maybe post around town so that riders not in the MR crew will know as well.I am more then willing to help.email me at blacklung323@tmail.com



blackout_blacklung
07.15.08 - 9:24 am

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i would love to go to these things...if they weren't during my work hours



MOM-RIDA-Raquel
07.15.08 - 9:30 am

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