Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Critical Mass

LAPD Tackle Cyclists at Friday’s Critical Mass

By Damien Newton | Nov 30, 2009 | 61 Comments

Photo from of cyclists going through Second Street Tunnel via LACM’s twitter feed. Bike discussion sites have been abuzz since last Friday with news that things got ugly when Los Angeles Critical Mass breezed onto Los Angeles Street and ran into an LAPD Squad Car facing against traffic with its lights flashing. According to eye […]

Northeast LA Critical Mass: “One Night Only” or “Rebirth”

By Damien Newton | Mar 24, 2009 | 5 Comments

When there’s only nine people, it’s hard to hand off the camera. Photo: LA Streetsblog (This article is my first effort to revive a monthly series on Critical Mass in the Greater Los Angeles area. Previously Streetsblog has celebrated an anniversary in the Valley, dodged the police in Santa Monica, cruised with the kids in […]

Streetfilms: San Francisco Halloween Mass

By Damien Newton | Nov 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Before heading down to LA, Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson took a ride with what some are calling the largest Critical Mass in history, last Friday’s San Francisco Critical Mass. Dressed as a bee, Clarence manages to find several other bees, people dressed as everything from the police and even random people screaming out their support for […]

Santa Monica Physical Mass

By Damien Newton | Oct 31, 2008 | 4 Comments

In the past couple of months the Santa Monica Police Department has cracked down on the monthly Critical Mass rides assigning at least a dozen officers every month to follow cyclists and basically harass them with nuisance tickets. Oftentimes, these tickets are dismissed, and the extra effort costs the SMPD about $3,000 a month. Well […]

San Fernando Valley Critical Mass Celebrates 2nd Anniversary

By Damien Newton | Sep 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

(This article appears as part of a monthly series on Critical Mass in the Greater Los Angeles area. Previously Streetsblog has dodged the police with Santa Monica Critical Mass, cruised with the kids in Pasadena, cruised the downtown in Los Angeles, and kicked around in Venice.) Last night, San Fernando Valley Critical Mass celebrated its […]

Crimanimalz Create Traffic Jams to Protest Santa Monica Police

By Damien Newton | Aug 12, 2008 | 12 Comments

Responding to the over-policing of Critical Mass in Santa Monica, cyclists took to the streets last Friday night to show the SMPD that sometimes following the letter of the law is the worst thing that can be done for traffic. In what MetBlogs described as an act of "Civil Obedience" 60 cyclists got off their […]

Show More Stories