It takes 15-20 minutes from the time I walk out the door of my apartment to the time I walk in the door of my work. Whether it is 15 minutes or 20 minutes depends on this intersection. This is right after the museum of science, and traffic is such that all bicyclists wind up on the sidewalk waiting to cross 3 streets controlled by three un-synchronized lights. As annoying as it can be at times, it's sort of neat to sit there as everyone forms a knot of bicycles. I told a woman at work about this--she's a big time biker--and she said that is how critical mass in China started. There are so many bikes there, competing with the cars, that bikers will just sit and wait at an intersection until there are enough of them, a critical mass of them, if you will, to take over the road and cross the street. Here in Cambridge there are usually no more than half a dozen or so, and we tend to wait for the lights to change. Usually.
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