Ghost bike

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Not to be confused with Ghost Bikes, manufacturer.

Ghost bikes (also referred to as ghostcycle or WhiteCycle ) are roadside bike monuments, placed where the cyclists are killed or seriously injured. , usually by motor vehicle.

Aside from being a warning, it is usually meant as a reminder to drive a passing rider to share a path. The ghost bike is usually a white-painted junk bike, sometimes with a plaque attached, and locked to a suitable object close to the scene of the accident. They are also sometimes stripped of their tires, to prevent theft.

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Histori

According to The Guardian , the first recorded ghost bike was in St. Petersburg. Louis, Missouri, in 2003. A witness to a collision between a cyclist and a car put a bike painted on the premises with a message that read: "The cyclist struck here.

The original idea of ​​a white bike was reported back to Amsterdam in the 1960s as an anarchist project to free two-wheeled vehicles - a free white bicycle, help yourself and then leave it to others.

The idea of ​​a ghost bike in the United States probably came from a project by San Francisco artist Jo Slota, starting in April 2002. It is a purely artistic endeavor. Slota was attracted by abandoned bicycles he found around town, locked up but his parts were useless. He begins to paint them white, and post the photos on his site, ghostbike.net. When the idea was taken for a different purpose, Slota faced a dilemma. San Francisco is one of the safer US cities for cyclists, but warning ghost bikes popping up there just like anywhere else, changing the perception of the project.

A ghost bike warning project started at St. Louis in October 2003. After observing a motorcyclist riding a bicycle on a bike trail on Holly Hills Boulevard, Patrick Van Der Tuin placed a whitewashed bicycle in place with a hand-painted sign. read "Struck Bicycle Rider Here". Paying attention to the effects of motorists in the area, Van Der Tuin then asked friends for help in placing 15 "ghost bikes" in the prominent places in St. Louis where cyclists were recently hit by a car. They use broken bikes, in some cases deliberately damaged to create the desired destructive effect.

Similar projects began in Pittsburgh in 2004, New York City, Seattle in 2005, Albuquerque, and Toronto in 2006. In August 2005, nearly 40 ghost bikes were stationed all over Seattle to draw awareness to the crash site, near-close, and bad roads. condition. The ghost bike in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., commemorates a motorist who was killed by a garbage truck in 2008, staying for a full year. When it was removed by city employees, the rider's friends replaced it with 22 ghost bikes, one on each lamppost. London Ghostcycle was active in 2005 and 2006. There are similar projects in dozens of other cities around the world. A recent bike warning project commenced in Durham, North Carolina to commemorate the deaths of two leading cyclists and bicycle safety supporters.

In late 2013 and early 2014, Houston's Ghost Bike Group has placed 47 ghost bikes to raise awareness during a series of cycling accidents mainly involving cars that took place in Houston, many of them hitting and running. In this post, they work on 13 more bikes to carry the list of deaths in recent years.

There are currently more than 630 ghost bikes that have appeared in over 210 locations around the world. There is no single entity that governs the installation of all ghost bikes, and they are sometimes removed by those who do not like the exercises.

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See also

• Bicycle security
• Ride of Silence
• Cycling vehicles

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References

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External links

• Information on ghost bikes around the world: Ghost Bikes and Ghost Bike, projects by Jo Slota
• Ghost Bike in Chicago

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