Draw The Line O.G. – The “Get Ready” Ride (Critical Mass Bike Ride)

The Ottawa-Gatineau DRAW THE LINE mass bike ride/action will be on Friday September 19th in the early evening, in advance of the DRAW THE LINE rally and march on September 20th.

To continue the build up and preparations, we are holding a final ‘Get Ready’ ride one week before: meet 6pm Friday September 12th at Confederation Park.

This will be a Critical Mass style ride; part of preparing is to ensure more people are ‘Critical Mass literate’ – and the best way is by experience. Some of the principles: We don’t have a pre-planned route, it is up to the people at the front where we go, and we rotate who is at the front at different times during the ride. The ‘red light’ intersection approach depends on how many people are riding. And remember: “We aren’t blocking traffic, we are traffic!”

At the August 29 ride, we decided to have everyone wear red for September 12’s ride, to add a dimension to how we appear to drivers etc. So please do that if you can.

Also, please let us know in advance if you’ll be there with panniers on your bike, or with a cargo/passenger bike, or other ways to potentially carry signage: fridaysfutureottawa@gmail.com – we want to work on that aspect of the riding.

We are hoping we can make September 19th a big ride!
Part of it is a distributed approach to promo: see the folder here http://tinyurl.com/s19bikepromo with posters, social media graphics, and email text, to use to help spread the word!

We could have hundreds of us on bikes taking back the streets on September 19th, and thousands marching in the streets September 20th, but it depends on how well we make sure other people other know that’s what we’re doing.

Solidarité!

Full background info and further details on the FridaysForFutureOttawa.org website.

*If it ends up raining right around 6pm, the meeting location for the ride shifts across the street to under the awnings at City Hall’s entrance.