Clowns Liberate Bike Lanes

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Speaker: [00:03] We can help you move it faster if you need.

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Speaker: [00:09] This car is illegally parked in a bike lane.

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Speaker: [00:13] See those big expensive things made of tin driving by that could hurt you if you walk in front of them? They’re dominating the city. There’s got to be something else to urban life besides going to and from work and polluting the environment.

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Speaker: [01:02] There’s a real need for the bike lane liberation of clowns today. Obviously we haven’t been doing enough of this lately because the cars are getting back into their comfort zone of parking in the bike lane.

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Speaker: [01:19] The idea that you can have something else in the city besides just cars is a tough idea for folks so we’re helping educate folks around that, and hopefully people will start to get it, but it doesn’t happen overnight.

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Speaker: [01:34] Another bike lane liberated.

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Speaker: [01:37] I see something that does not look like a bike up ahead.

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Speaker: [01:47] Assuming that we get more with sugar than salt we engage the drivers, we play with power, we chatted with them, we had fun, we used humour.

Speaker: [01:55] I’m getting out now.

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Speaker: [02:09] We have a new bike lane on 9^th Avenue where there’s actually a physical space created for bikes, and yet the implementation issue continues to be a big problem. I mean trucks are loading on the bike lanes. The need for vigilance and public education in a playful way is more of a need than ever.

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Speaker: [02:29] I’m like it’s the first I’ve seen this beautiful bike lane. I want to hug it, I want to ride in it, just like imagine if this was more than five blocks, if it actually stretched all around the city and we had this beautiful protected bike lane where you could just ride and relax and breathe and not feel stressed.

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