INDUSTRY WORKERS RIDE — TUESDAY, JUNE 17 @ 7:30PM
📍 Meet at the Canal Street Ferry Terminal
When industry workers can’t join the ride on Fridays, we shift the ride to meet them. This Critical Mass is for the bartenders, servers, line cooks, and dishwashers who keep the city moving—but are too often pushed to its margins.
We’re joining forces with BestBank Bikes and West Bank Gravel Club for a solidarity ride across the river. The ride will be split into two parts:
Part 1: We’ll gather at the Canal Street Ferry Terminal at 7:30 PM and depart at 8 PM for a Critical Mass ride on the East Bank. We’ll return to the ferry terminal by 9 PM.
Part 2: We’ll catch the 9:15 PM ferry to Algiers. If it takes two trips to get everyone across, we’ll ride a loop while we wait. Once across, we’ll ride a West Bank Critical Mass and return to the East Bank as early as 11 PM. Want to chill on the Point for adult beverages? The last ferries back to the East Bank depart at 11:30 PM and midnight.
This isn’t just a joyride—it’s a statement.
Starting June 15, the RTA is piloting extended ferry hours, running until 12:15 AM (up from the current 8:45 PM and 10:45 PM cutoffs). The goal is to see if it helps service industry workers—but the trial is being run during the slowest season, without input from the very workers it’s meant to serve.
Without late-night ferry service, service workers are left with two-bus commutes (a commute that is a hour and a half, if and only if, each bus runs according to schedule and can be caught on time), rideshare fares that wipe out half a shift’s pay, or nights spent working just to afford to commute to work.
If you want to support service industry workers who live on the West Bank—many of whom live there because it’s more affordable or it's where their family homes are—ride the ferry after 8:45 PM on a weeknight, or after 10:45 PM on a Friday or Saturday.
By riding in solidarity with service workers, we are stating that:
Mobility is dignity. Public infrastructure should serve public need. No one should have to pay to serve the city.
Starting June 15, every late-night ferry ride is a vote for equity.
On Tuesday, June 17th let’s make a statement that transit and public infrastructure should serve the people!
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