Critical Mass invades the metro
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Critical Mass Torino has tried several times to get its bikes into the metro wagons, but GTT (the Torino metro administrator) doesn’t allow that. Each time we’ve tried, the speakers said “All the trains won’t start, until every bike will get out of the station”.
This time (on thursday) we went a bit further: we wanted to eat some panettone and drink some sparkling wine in the station without making the admins angry. So we carried our bikes near the ticket machines, we didn’t cross the turnstiles and we greeted at the security cameras while having our christmas party.
The admins liked the idea: they greeted us back when we arrived and they wished us a merry christmas when we left! I think we are somehow becoming friends. Who knows, maybe someday the GTT admins will understand that we will really appreciate the possibility to get our bikes into their metro: at least during winter, crossing the city in a warm place and let our bikes care about the short remaining distances is definitely a good thing.
This video shows us packing things up and receiving the leaving greetings from the admins.