Ghost bikes in the KCStar
Pittsburgh's Ghost Bike project is the subject of an
AP article that appeared today in the KCStar. The ghost bike project was
started by a St. Louis-area cyclist:
A St. Louis cycling organization was unsure about what to do with a donation of several hundred bikes until group member Patrick Van Der Tuin, 25, saw a cyclist hit by a car in front of his house, and the idea clicked for "Broken Bikes, Broken Lives."
In August, Van Der Tuin put up a bike for the crash near his home. In the fall, he and his friends put up a dozen more bikes, all painted white, around St. Louis. This spring, another 15 or so went up.
Now ghost bikes are spreading around the country as a grassroots cyclist safety movement.
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