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Ghost Bike Memorials Vanishing From Roadways

Ghost Bike Memorials Vanishing From Roadways
Bike Enthusiast Tries To Save Memorials

POSTED: 6:26 pm MST February 28,
2010

UPDATED: 6:32 pm MST February 28,
2010

Ride Honors Fallen Cyclists

Last Updated: 1:25 PM, January 8, 2010

Posted: 3:31 PM, January 7, 2010

Pablo
Pasáran became a statistic Aug. 8 as he rode his bicycle to make a food
delivery near the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City.

The
26-year-old Bronx father of three was struck and killed there at the
intersection of 21st Street and 35th Avenue by a vehicle driven by a
suspected drug dealer during a high-speed police chase.

Ghost (Bicycle) Riders in the Sky

They rest affixed to street signs, stark whitewashed bicycles
locked on sidewalks near dangerous intersections where accidents have
claimed the lives of cyclists and pedestrians.

On Sunday,
January 3, a group of cyclists added ten more ghost bikes to
memorialize those killed traffic accidents over the past year, bringing
the total number of roadside memorials placed around the city to 66.

Now
in its fifth year, the memorial ride, held on the first Sunday of the
new year, is part of the Street Memorial Project’s effort to create a

Grave Reminders: Streetside Memorials Promote Bicycle Safety

Grave Reminders: Streetside Memorials Promote Bicycle Safety

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By Caroline Liebman

Ghost Riders: In Houston, bicycling is known as a killer sport.

Cisco Rios lived to ride his bike. The 25-year-old waiter longed to
ditch his job and make that passion his livelihood. His buddy Matt
Wurth, owner of Heights-area bike shop I Cycle, said that Rios told him
that he wanted to take up Wurth's trade and move with his Australian
fiancée to Seattle. There the two young lovers wanted to start a new
life together in a cyclist's paradise.

Ghost bike marks deadly Ottawa crash

Last Updated:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | 4:30 PM ET 

CBC News

For a Departed Daughter, a White Schwinn on a Manhattan Street Corner

For the past seven months or so, the couple has made the trip to the corner of 49th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan 20 times. There,
chained to a “no standing” sign, is a bicycle painted in white. This spot, rather than a grave site, is where they go to feel close to their daughter.

Ms. Geocos.
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times

A ghostly reminder of dangers to cyclists

First seen in the US, ‘ghost bikes’ will mark the locations where cyclists were killed

LATER
TODAY a bicycle will be chained to a parapet railing on the banks of
the Grand Canal at Harold’s Cross Bridge. It will be secured with a
regular lock in an act so mundane that it seems not worth noting at all.

But
this bike will be very different from the many thousands of others
secured to lamp-posts and fences and bicycle racks across the city. It
will be painted completely white – wheels, tyres, spokes and chain.

Ghost Bikes memorialize dead cyclists

A small child's bicycle, painted white and chained to a guardrail on
Martin Luther King Drive, stands in tribute to 6-year-old Riley Boyle.

It
is a Ghost Bike, a link to a worldwide movement - physical and virtual
- that aims to memorialize the deaths of cyclists, spur a change in
motorist behavior, and compel cities to make the streets safer.

Ghost Bikes

If communal grieving is a basic part of what
makes us human, Ghost Bikes are a remarkable sign of humanity. Part
political statement, part memorial Ghost Bikes are an outward sign that
the bike community cares when one of our own is struck down.