Aaron Naparstek

» Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Not Even Safe for Dead Cyclists

The recent spike in cyclist fatalities combined with the year-long crackdown on Critical Mass, gives many New York City cyclists the feeling that their community is under siege. One of the more interesting forms of activism to emerge from this comes from a group called Visual Resistance. They have installed haunting, white, "ghost bike" memorials at the scenes of the four most recent cyclist fatalities. Above is the ghost bike memorial for Andrew Morgan, the 25-year-old man who was run over by a delivery truck on Houston and Elizabeth Streets while biking to work last month. Apparently, even ghost bikes are dangerous to ride in this town. No doubt, if the NYPD investigates this crash scene they will find “cyclist error” as the “primary contributing factor” for this cabbie running up on the sidewalk. You know how agressive those crazy ghost bikers are.

Photo by Carter Booth copied from the Downtown Express.

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