{"id":380,"date":"2010-02-14T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-02-14T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:57:37","slug":"reclaim-the-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/02\/14\/reclaim-the-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaim the Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you Reclaim the Streets any more, then Reclaim the Lanes instead. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit sad really. The RTL party on 13 February was small but kind of fun anyway, even if everyone was funnelled into just one lane not far from the starting point. There were balloons, bikes, and budgie smugglers. When it became apparent that the procession had come to a halt people started sloping off to the bottlo in Enmore Road for supplies. The music from wheelie bin sound systems was great. And someone stuck up their photographs of the Reclaim the Streets events in Newtown from 1999 and 2000 to remind everyone what it used to be like.<\/p>\n

The back lanes of Enmore and Newtown are best known for their wall art, but there is stuff on the ground as well, mostly the signatures of artists who have done the wall pieces. I took photographs of RTL participants partying on the remnants of old pavement graffiti.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you Reclaim the Streets any more, then Reclaim the Lanes instead. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit sad really. The RTL party on 13 February was small but kind of fun anyway, even if everyone was funnelled into just one lane not far from the starting point. There were balloons, bikes, and budgie smugglers. <\/p>\n

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