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ghost bike for Manual Santizo
Los Angeles, CA
April 2011
P1090660 Ghost Bike For Jack Layton by Martinho on Flickr.
Ghost Bikes
On the junction by scala in Kings Cross, there is a new ghost bike. It is almost unrecognisable because of all the flowers. It’s covered most the way up the lamp post in flowers.
It breaks my heart because whoever lost their life there was obviously so, so loved.
It’s not so hard to take a second look for cyclists before you turn. To have an extra 10 seconds of consideration. I can say this now as a driver as well as a cyclist. Just look. Open your eyes.
And rest in peace, whoever you are.
ghost bike for Marco Acuapan in Orange County, CA
This is a ghost bike, it appeared on my street a few weeks ago. When a cyclist is killed a ghost bike appears shortly thereafter, painted white and typically with a plaque - a memorial for the cyclist that was killed. Until the ghost bike came to my neighborhood I didn’t know such a thing existed. I find it to be a beautiful but tragic memorial.
Ghost Bike in memory of Robert Townsend off Campus Parkway and University Way.
University District, Seattle
Ghost bike. :(
If I were a bear: Another Ghost Bike »
It was supposed to be the happiest of times for Jenna Morrison and her husband, Florian Schuck.
Together for a decade, they were life partners who rode out life’s crises with love and commitment.
A yoga instructor, she was a spiritual person who supported her husband through a cancer…
Toronto cyclists gather for ride in honour of fallen cyclist Jenna Morrison
David Rothberg, chairman of Niagara Capital Partners, a Bay Street hedge fund, rode his bicycle from his home in the Annex to the corner of Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street West at 7:30 a.m. Monday. He joined about 400 cyclists who rode silently down Spadina, across Harbord Street, down to College Street and west to Sterling Road and Dundas Street West.
This “ghost bike ride,” organized by Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists, served to commemorate Jenna Morrison, the mom and yoga teacher killed by a truck while riding her bike a week ago. (Photo: Peter Kuitenbrouwer/National Post)
(Source: zkofilms)
(Source: zkofilms)
