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Ghost bike

Photograph by kellyhogaboomon Flickr.

This was a distinct, purely artistic endeavor. The first ghost bike memorial project was in St. A ghost bike or ghostcycle Ghost bike is a bicycle set up in a place where a cyclist has been hurt or killed by a motor vehicle, bike as a roadside memorial The ghost bike idea seems to have Ghost bike originated with a project by San Francisco artist Jo Slota.

Slota began the original ghost bike project in April 2002. Louis, Missouri, United States in Mountain bike October 2003. Similar projects began in Pittsburgh in 2004, In August 2005, nearly 40 ghost bikes were placed throughout Seattle to draw awareness to locations Ghost bike of accidents, near-misses, and poor road conditions. A ghost bike in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., commemorating a rider killed by a garbage truck in 2008, remained for a full year.

When it was removed by city employees, friends of the rider replaced it with 22 ghost bikes, one on Ghost bike every lamppost. .