You see these all around Chicago. It’s a sad sight
this is why you never move, remove, or lock your bike up with a ghost bike. they are someone’s tribute to a loved one. be respectful
We’ve started putting similar memorials up around our city when pedestrians biking are killed by car drivers. It’s getting pretty scary just how many we need to make. There’s even some spots where we almost had to put two on the same street corner (the biker lived after a hospital stay), and we’ve only been doing it for a year!
Ya the white bicycle, a “ghost bike”. You see them here in Portland. Gruesome but I think it’s an important visible reminder.
Beautiful tribute… My buddy rides through Manhattan every day and I tell him he is insane. I love biking but you’d never catch me doing it around cars.
This is why we need proper infrastructure design, together with dedicated cycling corridors.
Cars should not be allowed anywhere near pedestrian or cycling routes. Especially at any speed high enough to seriously ingure or kill. City streets should be for the people that live in the area and not through traffic.
Also I like to cycle, but my cycling style is like “taking a relaxing walk”, I like to look around at my surrounding and enjoy the area I am in. I can’t do that and feel safe on a two or more lane city street packed with cars racing to the next red.
Toronto checking in, we have these at almost every “major” street intersection.
Our drivers like to speed through the red lights, to get to the next red as soon as possible.
We also have a “Vision Zero” goal in the city (which is to get to zero deaths on city roadways), but since the initative was announced not much has been done to limit car travel or access across the city.
Ghost Bikes are old news. They exist for years, if not decades in Europe.
