Bike memorial projects in the NY Times
Posted June 26th, 2005 by eliot
Colin Moynihan has an article in the New York Times today about our ghost bike project and Time’s Up’s memorial stenciling project. It’s good that this issue is getting mentioned in the media — the more public sympathy, the more leverage to make change. Here’s the article:
On Roads Where They Fell, Bicyclists Are Remembered
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
The day after Andrew Ross Morgan was killed when his bicycle and a furniture truck collided at a Manhattan intersection, a bouquet of lilies stood nearby in a metal coffee can; a scrap of paper on a lamppost bore his name and the abbreviation R.I.P. Soon, those memorials were joined by another.