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Ghost bikes in the KCStar
Thursday, June 10, 2004
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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