Liz Padilla Bike lift
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Liz Padilla Ghost Bike and Plaque
The newest installation in the Ghost Bike memorials.
7 bikes were installed in time for the
Memorial Bike ride organized by
Time's Up! .
The ride was in memory of the 21 cyclists that were killed by automobiles in 2005. It is an extraordinarily large amount of people, double the amount of previous years. Rides began in all 5 boroughs and converged in Manhattan, ending at this memorial for all the Unnamed riders. We are unable to find out the identities of eight people because of the lack of informatio from the D.O.T. and the NYPD.
The VR collective hopes that these installations will bring visibility to the death of these cyclists, and to the lives of everyone that ride the streets of NYC.
Thank you to Time's Up! for all their work in organizing this ride. And our condolences to all families who have lost a loved one to automobile-related deaths.
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Visual Resistance
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Thanks for sharing this.
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Your Welcome!
As we've been quoted in articles, this was
our response to the preventable deaths that
are happening around us in NYC.
So sharing this is a part of our processing
and coping with these events.
k
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Check out the photos that the Village Voice took of the memorial ride!
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NEWSDAY article
Bicyclists remember riders killed on city
streets
BY JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN
amNEWYORK STAFF WRITER
January 9, 2006
Two-wheeled processions wound their way
through four boroughs Sunday, as scores of
bicyclists staged memorial rides for the 21
riders killed on city streets in 2005.
All but one of the victims were killed by a
car or truck.
"A lot of these accidents didn't have
to happen," said Ryan Kuonen, 34, of the
bicyclists-advocacy group TIME'S UP! "If
drivers took just a few seconds to check
their mirrors before making sudden movements,
some of these cyclists would still be with us
today."
Kuonen organized one of the Brooklyn rides
Sunday, and led bikers past the site of
several fatal accidents. The riders stopped
at one Borough Park intersection for a brief
memorial led by a rabbi for Chiam Goldberg,
24, a Hasidic man who was killed last
January.
"We don't have many Hasidic bikers in
TIME'S UP!," said Kuonen, "in fact
we have none. But we found this rabbi who is
into biking and he served as a link between
our two communities."
Sunday's memorial rides also passed by a
number of all-white-painted bicycles, which
are parked to serve as memorials near
accident scenes. While these "ghost
bikes" are meant to be permanent
installations, some landlords have removed
them as eyesores.
More than 150,000 New Yorkers commute by
bicycle every day. That number shot up to
600,000 during last month's transit strike.
Those people included Firefighter Matthew
Long, who was left in critical condition
after a bus struck the bicycle he was using
to get around.
"Those of us who are out here everyday
know about the dangers," Kuonen said.
"But we also know biking is the most
efficient, cleanest way to get around this
city."
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