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Making A Safer City

It Could Happen Here

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Critical Mass Rights in the United States

I remember in the early I guess the first decade of this century like um they would be critical mass rights before anti-g8 protests. There were a lot that the bicycles seemed like an intuitive protest mode for many people and that's probably sort of some of the cultural political tools of critical Mass. The belt line in Atlanta started off at the you know as an idea in 1999 with wanting to use public transit using bike paths going all around the city. But instead it was used by real estate companies to replace low income neighborhoods with massive amounts of expensive restaurants and luxury condos. It is really kind of interesting how these ideas can start off so good and that when they get actually done it's manifested

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