File under police state*.

Critical mass is an event which takes place in London on the last Friday of every month, the capital’s cyclists get together and cycle around chatting and generally being good natured, a couple of times I’ve detoured on my way home to join the throng for a mile or two and allways found the atmosphere to be good natured and the speed of transit to be somewhat faster than that which normal central London trafiic would allow. I was actually thinking of going last Friday but didn’t in the end because I would have had to park my bike around Victoria where it probably would have been removed, stolen or vandalised. If I had gone I would have recieved one of these letters from the police. Nice. Here’s a brief account from someone who did go along .

Hopefully the police will be handing out similar letters to the thousands of motorists who congregate daily to block our streets and make our city a more dangerous, polluted and generally unsightly place to be.

Naturally, I’ll be going along on the 28th of October to excercise my right to cycle around as I’ve been encouraged to do by the mayor of Londons poster and TV ad campaigns, I recommend everyone else who has a bike to come along and join the fun. In the meantime I’ll be writing to my MP.