Comments on: Ghost Bike Memories Getting Pieced http://urbanvelo.org/ghost-bike-memories-getting-pieced/ Bicycle culture on the skids. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: scott http://urbanvelo.org/ghost-bike-memories-getting-pieced/comment-page-1/#comment-108458 scott Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:49:21 +0000 http://urbanvelo.org/?p=31842#comment-108458 I personally feel, if you leave a ghost bike up for an indefinate amount of time it loses its meaning. People who drive by it everyday go from seeing a reminder of what happens when you aren’t a mindful driver, to overlooking it because it is now part of their daily commute. You can be desensitized to these things. 2 months seems like a good length of time. From there… maybe plant a tree or donate a bike rack in the person’s name. Hold a ride in their name each year, whatever works.

]]> By: Daniel http://urbanvelo.org/ghost-bike-memories-getting-pieced/comment-page-1/#comment-108438 Daniel Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:30:58 +0000 http://urbanvelo.org/?p=31842#comment-108438 In Anchorage one of the local bike orgs has a ghost bike that is used for such memorials and then put away- hopefully forever but you know how that goes. I believe there is an agreement with the municipality of how long it will stand at any certain place, seems to be a month or two.

In some cases after the ghost bike has been removed there has been a Share the Road or some similar cycle orientated road sign erected with a ‘In memory of_____’ attached to it.

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