Conflicts Involving Critical Mass
There have been many conflicts during Critical Mass bicycling events resulting in injuries, property damage, and arrests. Both bicyclists and motorized vehicle drivers have been victims. Critics say that Critical Mass, a bicycling advocacy event held primarily in large metropolitan cities, is a deliberate attempt to obstruct automotive traffic and disrupt normal city functions, since individuals taking part refuse to obey traffic laws.
Read more about Conflicts Involving Critical Mass: Berkeley, California, USA, Buffalo, NY, USA, Chicago, USA, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, London, Great Britain, Long Beach, California, USA, Minneapolis, USA, Minsk, Belarus, New York City, USA, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Vilnius, Lithuania, Walnut Creek, California, USA, Warsaw, Poland
Famous quotes containing the words conflicts, involving, critical and/or mass:
“The extrovert and introvert, the realist and idealist, the scientist and philosopher, the man who found himself by refinding his life history and the individual who discovered his being in fantasy, these are the differences between Freud and Jung.”
—Robert S. Steele. Freud and Jung: Conflicts of Interpretation, ch. 10, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1982)
“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
—Jessie Bernard (20th century)
“Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.”
—Erma Bombeck (20th century)
“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)