Memorial ride recap
Posted January 10th, 2006 by eliot
Sunday’s memorial ride for the 21 bicyclists killed in 2005 was a success, with over 100 riders from all five boroughs meeting up in Manhattan. We spent the weekend making seven ghost bikes together with Time’s Up — six for bikers whose names only recently became available, and one for the eight whose names have not been disclosed by the city bureacracy.
The ride (and ghost bikes) received a fair amount of press attention — see the Village Voice, Indymedia, Staten Island Advocate, Gothamist, and Newsday — which goes a long way towards raising awareness of cyclists’ right to safe travel.
k.see has posted several photos from the ride on flickr and of the process of creating the ghost bikes in our photolog. I’ll be updating our ghost bikes project page soon with full information on the recently-created memorials.
Thanks to fi5e and James for their help, without which we would’ve been hard pressed to pull this off on such short notice.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:35 am
This was an really great event and ride! It was the first time in over a year and a half that I have felt safe while riding with a group of cyclists in NYC. Safe from automobiles and from the NYPD and city harrassment. The ride started in all 5 boroughs and met up in lower Manhattan. Brooklyn was behind only an hour and 15 minutes meeting up with
the rest of the folks in Manhattan. Which I was impressed at, cos there was a really tight and wishful itinerary.
Thank you to everyone from Time’s Up!, to Evan, James, the folks that showed up, and the news outlets that did some descent reporting.
My condolences to everyone that has lost a loved one to an automobile accident, it feels so preventable.
January 14th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
we reiceved a comment on our photolog from Colorado.
A ghost bike was installed for a person named Jim Price.
look at Banshee Cycling