Archive for the 'ghostbikes' Category
ADOT working to repair and replace Grant Davis’s ghostbike
I got a call from the Arizona Department of Transportation today to alert me that they had removed the ghostbike that was anonymously installed for Grant Davis.
I appreciated that call a lot.
It seems the bike was inadvertently installed inside some kind of federally-mandated safety zone and ADOT was compelled to move it, but [...]
Over 2000 cyclists join memorial ride for Florida cyclist killed by drunk driver
This story is awful in every way. (Link to story on Drunkcyclist, not always completely SFW). See more about the memorial ride here, including lots of photos.
–EBR
AZ Daily Star weighs in on bike enforcement
The Arizona Daily Star has a depressing, simple-minded editorial about the Third Street bike enforcement that is occurring.
They say:
The recent, albeit limited, crackdown of cyclists who ignore the traffic rules of the road is a positive move, not because cyclists aren’t welcome in Tucson, but because our community is bicycle-friendly and keeping everyone safe is [...]
One ghost bike taken, 22 more appear
From Today’s Washington Post.
One Memorial Bike Taken From DuPont Circle, 22 More Appear
By Ashley Halsey III
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 10, 2009; 5:01 PM
Even in a city so thick with monuments that only tourists notice the big ones and pigeons get the rest, it was hard to miss the stark white bicycle chained to a [...]
Charles Nystrom, one year later — come decorate the ghost bike
I received this from Charles Nystrom’s family:
Friday, August 14, marks one year since Chuck was killed. We want to remember this day by decorating his Ghost Bike so that drivers will see it and be reminded to share the road. We are gathering at 5:30pm. The bike is located at the west [...]
Allen Johnson ghost bike installed
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
Faith Quick sentenced today in Charles Nystrom Fatality
As most of my readers know, Charles Nystrom was killed while riding his bicycle on Tanque Verde Road last year. He was a retired Air Force pilot, a bicyclist, father of two daughters, and was working as a school teacher at the time of his death.
I never met him, but he sounds [...]
Patti Lopez ghost bike already vandalized, and already replaced
I hate having to report on ghost bikes getting vandalized. But they do. The Jose Rincon ghost bike was repeatedly vandalized. A ghost bike we installed on Columbus and Grant for Peter Visconti III was completely removed, presumably by the local business owner (though we don’t know that).
Now according to an email [...]
Patti Lopez ghost bike appears on Camino de la Tierra
Here is a photo of a beautiful ghost bike that has appeared at Camino de la Tierra at the river, just south of Green fields school. It was apparently installed anonymously.
Patti Lopez was a mother of two children still in middle school, struck from behind and killed on May 20, 2008.
I am pleased [...]
Husband, Father, Teacher: Forever May You Fly
The Nystrom family installed this beautiful ghost bike near Udall Park on Tanque Verde Road this week.
Air Force Lt. Colonel Charles Nystrom was killed last August by a drug-impaired driver who apparently sped around cars that had slowed to let him cross the street where he was to visit his family at a restaurant.
Mr. [...]