Burgess Johnson had no interest in driving.

“My brother was a bicyclist,” says his sister Valarie Logan. “He built his own bikes. He never went into the store to buy a bike. He always rode bikes; he never drove.”

Johnson will be honored tomorrow with the cycling community’s most haunting icon, a ghost bike, as his family seeks to find the driver who hit him before fleeing the scene.

The 53-year-old Southeast resident was cycling on 29th Street SE on June 30. He passed through a stop sign at approximately 6:17 p.m., turning left onto Erie Street SE, when he was struck by a car.

Police say the driver got out of the vehicle and checked on Johnson. Then he drove away.

Johnson was taken to a hospital in critical condition with multiple injuries. His family eventually took him off life support and he succumbed to those injuries on July 16.

At a memorial event tomorrow, family members will gather outside the Anacostia Library, which hosts the East of the River Bike Clinic, to dedicate a bike painted entirely white in Johnson’s honor. They will also ask for the public’s help in finding the driver.

In addition to raising money for funeral expenses, the family and WABA hope to draw attention to the area’s lack of bike infrastructure.

There were no bike lanes in the area where Johnson was biking and Logan suspects that, if there were, drivers might be more aware of cyclists sharing the road.

Although D.C. is ranked among the country’s best bicycling cities, and many cyclists say the city is headed in the right direction, communities east of the river haven’t seen the same level of investment in new bike lanes.

“There’s not a lot of bike infrastructure in wards 7 and 8 and there are zero bike shops over there. And yet there is a population that bikes,” says WABA community organizer Renée Moore.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a plan, called Vision Zero, last year to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities and injuries by 2024, but the city is still a long ways off.

There have been 19 traffic fatalities so far this year, two of which were cyclists, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A 74-year-old cyclist died in May, succumbing to injuries he sustained the month before in a crash at Florida Avenue and 1st Street NW.

“We definitely need to do more education for drivers, for bicyclists, for pedestrians moving through space in D.C.,” Moore says.

The memorial to Johnson will serve as one reminder for all who pass by.

“As he became older, I thought he would give up bicycling,” Logan says, but her brother loved it too much. “He believed in giving his heart to people and putting his heart into everything he would do.”

Christina Sturdivant contributed reporting.