©Barry Sandland/TIMB – The basic call for change
©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Cyclists in protest to climate change through Brussels
“We Are Sounding the Alarm” – Protest banner from the Brussels Critical Climate Mass ride. Continue reading
©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Sustainable energy meets sustainable protest in Brussels as hundreds of cyclists called for action to limit the damages of climate change.
Barry Sandland/TIMB – A mass of cyclists occupying the work area on rue de la Roi offered the difference in life on a Friday night.
©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Join the hundreds of other cyclists in your city to advocate for cycling
Critical Mass rides again tonight. As always, the last Friday of the month. But this is August and possibly the best month to participate. At least in Brussels. In the past week, the cars seem to have disappeared. Like body snatchers, just not replaced by sinister clones (never replace sinister with sinister). Brussels has evacuated Continue reading
©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Critical Mss and the advocacy groups that promote, advocate and encourage cycling.
Belgium is fortunate to have a series of cycling voices pressing advocacy and participation issues. From Fietserbond to GRACQ to Velorution to Critical Mass, the collective voice is always about the bike, making the roads safer, drivers more aware, improving infrastructure, encouraging participation. But I have a piece of my heart for Critical Mass, the most Bolshy, vocal, adversarial of all the advocates. Continue reading
