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These are a few featured articles about the Ghost Bike Project.
Ghost Bikes both art, memorial to cyclists killed on Tucson roads: Six installations also serve as awareness cue for motorists
(Tucson)
Published: Jul, 17 2008
White bicycles stationed along several Tucson roadways are part art, part memorial, and mostly public service, say some who have installed the six "Ghost Bikes."
The bikes mark the spot at which a cyclist was killed. An accompanying Web site has a map of the locations and brief descriptions of the circumstances for each bicycle.
They serve as a memorial, alongside makeshift roadside memorials from friends and family. But these bikes are often installed by people who did not know the victim.
Bicicletes blanques recorden a tot el món els ciclistes morts / Bicis blancas recuerdan en todo el mundo a los ciclistas muertos
(Girona)
Published: Jul, 14 2008
Español:
• La iniciativa Ghost Bikes se ha extendido a más de 40 ciudades de nueve países
Lápidas urbanas. Bicis blancas que señalan una tragedia. Y, normalmente, una injusticia. Desde el 2002, gente anó- nima de todo el mundo coloca bicicletas fantasma en los lugares en los que un ciclista ha fallecido víctima de un brutal atropello.
Ghost Riders
Published: Jun, 15 2008
As cycling in New York has become more popular, it has become increasingly deadly. The city is now spotted with viral, spectral memorials.
What would we learn if ghost bikers could talk?
Published: Jun, 9 2008
Ghost bikes bother me. They remind me of a life destroyed needlessly. And every time a cyclist is injured or killed, at least one person comes up to me and blames "all those careless and law-breaking bicyclists." So I called some bike crash survivors to see if they were really careless and lawbreaking.
Ethereal reminders of road's risks: Across Chicago, streams of bicyclists pay tribute to ghostly white bikes, roadside memorials
(Chicago)
Published: May, 22 2008
In the shadows beneath the overpass that runs above Logan Boulevard and Western Avenue, a spray-painted white bike is chained to a streetlight pole a few feet away from where Tyler Fabeck was struck and killed by a car last month.
The bicycle stands silent sentry on the southeast corner of the busy intersection, flashing brightly in cars' headlights as they pass. Known as a "ghost bike," it was assembled by friends and family of Fabeck and is the latest addition to at least eight such monuments left by Chicago cyclists where they lost one of their own.
Cycle of life and death
Published: May, 16 2008
'Ghost bikes' are appearing on streets around the world to commemorate cyclists killed in accidents. Geoff Dyer applauds a 21st-century twist on the memorial.
Micro Trends: Ghost Bikes are mysterious white-painted memorials to cyclists killed on the roads all over the world.
(London)
Published: May, 16 2008
Britain is addicted to cellotaphs: those ad hoc dead-flower memorials taped to lamp posts near where a cyclist or pedestrian has been killed. However, hip cyclists (no strangers to sudden death or injury) have a more chilling way to remember their dead.
Portland, Ore., Acts to Protect Cyclists
(Portland)
Published: Jan, 10 2008
“Ghost bikes,” riderless and painted white, were placed at two busy intersections in Portland, Ore., last October, makeshift memorials to two bicyclists killed when they were hit by trucks in accidents that month.
For a Moment, They Stopped to Look
Published: Jan, 7 2008
Updated, Jan. 11, 2008
New Yorkers rarely stop.
Too rarely, in the view of the Street Memorial Project, which organized a memorial bicycle ride, walk and rally on Sunday to honor cyclists and pedestrians who were killed last year.
At the end of the event, a “ghost bike” was chained to a stop sign on Park Row, just outside City Hall.
It was painted bone white, like other such memorials, and adorned with flowers.
Chilling Memorials: Ghost bikes honor victims of bike-car collisions in cities across the country.
Published: Nov, 30 2007
The first "ghost bike" to mark a car-bike crash was installed in St. Louis in 2002 by Patrick Van Der Tuin, who helps run a shop that caters to low-income cyclists, and witnessed an SUV hit a cyclist in a bike lane. "I didn't say anything to anyone when I did it, but it got people talking," he says. Van Der Tuin's idea has spread to cities nationwide, and even internationally, but remains semi-underground, organized by a loose collaboration of cycling advocates and concerned riders in their respective cities.
These are a few featured articles about the Ghost Bike Project.
Ghost Bikes both art, memorial to cyclists killed on Tucson roads: Six installations also serve as awareness cue for motorists
White bicycles stationed along several Tucson roadways are part art, part memorial, and mostly public service, say some who have installed the six "Ghost Bikes."
The bikes mark the spot at which a cyclist was killed. An accompanying Web site has a map of the locations and brief descriptions of the circumstances for each bicycle.
They serve as a memorial, alongside makeshift roadside memorials from friends and family. But these bikes are often installed by people who did not know the victim.
Bicicletes blanques recorden a tot el món els ciclistes morts / Bicis blancas recuerdan en todo el mundo a los ciclistas muertos
Español:
• La iniciativa Ghost Bikes se ha extendido a más de 40 ciudades de nueve países
Lápidas urbanas. Bicis blancas que señalan una tragedia. Y, normalmente, una injusticia. Desde el 2002, gente anó- nima de todo el mundo coloca bicicletas fantasma en los lugares en los que un ciclista ha fallecido víctima de un brutal atropello.
Ghost Riders
Published: Jun, 15 2008As cycling in New York has become more popular, it has become increasingly deadly. The city is now spotted with viral, spectral memorials.
What would we learn if ghost bikers could talk?
Published: Jun, 9 2008Ghost bikes bother me. They remind me of a life destroyed needlessly. And every time a cyclist is injured or killed, at least one person comes up to me and blames "all those careless and law-breaking bicyclists." So I called some bike crash survivors to see if they were really careless and lawbreaking.
Ethereal reminders of road's risks: Across Chicago, streams of bicyclists pay tribute to ghostly white bikes, roadside memorials
In the shadows beneath the overpass that runs above Logan Boulevard and Western Avenue, a spray-painted white bike is chained to a streetlight pole a few feet away from where Tyler Fabeck was struck and killed by a car last month.
The bicycle stands silent sentry on the southeast corner of the busy intersection, flashing brightly in cars' headlights as they pass. Known as a "ghost bike," it was assembled by friends and family of Fabeck and is the latest addition to at least eight such monuments left by Chicago cyclists where they lost one of their own.
Cycle of life and death
Published: May, 16 2008'Ghost bikes' are appearing on streets around the world to commemorate cyclists killed in accidents. Geoff Dyer applauds a 21st-century twist on the memorial.
Micro Trends: Ghost Bikes are mysterious white-painted memorials to cyclists killed on the roads all over the world.
Britain is addicted to cellotaphs: those ad hoc dead-flower memorials taped to lamp posts near where a cyclist or pedestrian has been killed. However, hip cyclists (no strangers to sudden death or injury) have a more chilling way to remember their dead.
Portland, Ore., Acts to Protect Cyclists
“Ghost bikes,” riderless and painted white, were placed at two busy intersections in Portland, Ore., last October, makeshift memorials to two bicyclists killed when they were hit by trucks in accidents that month.
For a Moment, They Stopped to Look
Published: Jan, 7 2008Updated, Jan. 11, 2008
New Yorkers rarely stop.
Too rarely, in the view of the Street Memorial Project, which organized a memorial bicycle ride, walk and rally on Sunday to honor cyclists and pedestrians who were killed last year.
At the end of the event, a “ghost bike” was chained to a stop sign on Park Row, just outside City Hall.
It was painted bone white, like other such memorials, and adorned with flowers.
Chilling Memorials: Ghost bikes honor victims of bike-car collisions in cities across the country.
Published: Nov, 30 2007The first "ghost bike" to mark a car-bike crash was installed in St. Louis in 2002 by Patrick Van Der Tuin, who helps run a shop that caters to low-income cyclists, and witnessed an SUV hit a cyclist in a bike lane. "I didn't say anything to anyone when I did it, but it got people talking," he says. Van Der Tuin's idea has spread to cities nationwide, and even internationally, but remains semi-underground, organized by a loose collaboration of cycling advocates and concerned riders in their respective cities.