{"id":709001,"date":"2026-06-02T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:33:17","slug":"cyclists-take-to-the-streets-for-critical-mass-in-nanaimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709001\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists take to the streets for Critical Mass in Nanaimo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 50 cyclists took to the streets around Nanaimo\u2019s downtown Friday evening to spread awareness for rider safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyclists met at Diana Krall Plaza before riding around the downtown and Old City Quarter areas as one big group focusing on streets that lack proper cycling infrastructure in a movement called Critical Mass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Critical Mass movement started in the 90\u2019s in San Francisco as a protest and way for cyclists to meet each other and ride safely in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday May 29, the first community-run Critical Mass bike ride was held in Nanaimo since before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHLY spoke with Nanaimo Critical Mass bike ride organizer, Raquel Douchant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well, CHLY heard from other community members who came out for the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 50 cyclists took to the streets around Nanaimo\u2019s downtown Friday evening to spread awareness for rider safety.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-709001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}