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.