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1/26/2023 06:38:00 AM
I'm not sure about this take. I wasn't personally super concerned about rights for bicyclists when I first moved to chicago 15 years ago. I don't know whether I'd change my mind about it if I just heard that some lobbying group was getting the city to spend money on bike lanes. I think just joining in a couple critical mass rides and seeing the public demonstration of frustration and fun was a necessary step to becoming an advocate. It's tough to say how far that reach went and how many people only became amenable to cycling infrastructure improvement because they physically saw that critical mass. In summary, human psychology is a tricky thing and we don't know what the world would look like if critical mass never happened.