Allen Johnson ghost bike installed
Our eternal quest for Platinum Status, fatality, getting off easy again, ghostbikes April 13th, 2009
I was sent this photo today of a ghost bike that has appeared at the site where Allen Johnson was killed. I am told there still has been no citation issued to the driver, although she struck Johnson well within the bike lane.
–Erik Ryberg
April 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Thanks you to the Tucson community for putting this up.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I am incredulous that no citation has been issued. You can get away with murder in this town, as long as your weapon is a 2-ton vehicle.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Cops perspective:
You cyclists have that bike
lane which has been provided
to you at great sacrifice.
You should be grateful at all times.
You should stay in it at all times.
Anything that happens outside of it
is your fault.
You may count on us to enforce our opinion.
Have a nice day!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
The bike shoulder next to the bike route sign is ambiguous/dangerous in width. Or ladled into the hands of all who not think this is not a shoulder. Tucson is one big traffic experiment gone awry, with cops from another planet.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
What is a “bike shoulder”?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
It is what is created by that stripe.
Generally 5-6 feet from the curb.
In terms of the law, we don’t have bike ‘lanes’
in Tucson, just striped shoulders.
Broadway would be an example of a
bike lane, but then that is shared with
busses and right-turning cars.
That distance is measured, I think, from
where the concrete ends–not the verticle part
of the curb. The city will not create a bike
shoulder less than 4 feet wide.
If you are familiar with that ‘pinch point’
on Tucson Bvld. just north of Broadway, the
stripe disappears for a few yards. There should
be a “Bikes May Use Full Lane” sign there.
In fact, that sign should be posted all over town.
And on busses. And on cop cars, too!
Coghauler for Mayor!!
April 16th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Bike shoulders can be wider than 5 feet. Bike lane can only be 5 feet maximum. Shoulders will be less than four. No gutter pans on almost all roads. ( some magical point from the wall?)
Right curb lane is the slow lane for traffic.
<shoulders are misleading to other drivers.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
I wondered where this had happened, finally saw it the other day. Gave me chills. I don’t understand…there is plenty of room out there. Shame.
August 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Raymond Scharton
August 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
what????