Ghost bikes

In St. Louis, during 2002, Patrick Van Der Tuin began memorializing bicyclists killed or injured by motorists with white-painted bikes. He dubbed his project ‘Broken Bikes Broken Lives’. (Photograph courtesy of Carrie Zukoski)

Haven’t yet seen one in the flesh, but am mightily impressed by a very different take on white bicycles, the viral campaign splashed over two pages in today’s Observer.  Starting off in the US, it uses skeletally white-painted cycles to mark the spots where cyclists have been killed or injured.  Given that a young woman cyclist was killed by a bendy bus just around the corner from our London office a week or two ago, and having been left three times unconscious over 35 years of cycling in London, twice with three broken ribs, the ghost bike movement is one I whole-heartedly support.