holy shit.

now I know what we'd be doing .

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:

Apologies to those of you also on the Alliance list. Thought this was too cool to not forward.

I thought I’d pass this story along to the list. Just over a week ago, our Mayor’s office had a ghost bike removed from public space without alerting the family of the cyclist that was killed. This got some decent press attention here, and is helping us make additional improvements to the intersection where the crash occurred. The family is understandably quite upset at this callous treatment and despite repeated attempts to contact his office about the removal he has still not responded. The bike was removed at the request of a local business owner after about a year of being locked up in the same place. Apparently, the business owner that thought it was unsightly even though the family and friends of the cyclist did a good job of maintaining it. It had become an important symbol to the bike community and reminded us all to be careful. Early this morning, in response to the removal of the ghost bike, 22 new ghost bikes appeared at the same intersection. It was quite a sight to see.

Photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/biketrip2006/sets/72157622204193927/

Eric

WABA

Eric Gilliland

Executive Director

Washington Area Bicyclist Association

1803 Connecticut Ave NW, 3rd Floor

Washington, DC 20009

p) 202-518-0524

f) 202-518-0936

e) gill@waba.org

w) www.waba.org

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