They will also dedicate a ghost bike to Burgess Johnson.
Police are still searching for the driver of a vehicle that killed 23-year-old Jerrell Robert Elliot around 1 a.m. on June 23.
At some point this week, a ghost bike that had sat on and off at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and R and 20th Streets NW for the last three years was removed.
Image courtesy WABA The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has just posted some photos to its Facebook page of a white “ghost bike” placed at the corner of 12th Street and New York Ave. NW in honor of Constance Holden, who was killed Monday evening after a collision with a D.C. National Guard truck. The bicycle is currently locked to a street sign right beside some temporary fencing in place for the Nuclear Security Summit,…
Photo courtesy Eric Gilliland City workers on Friday collected and removed what remained of the 22 “ghost bikes” that had been placed around Connecticut and R Streets, the Post is reporting, including the locked-up bike that was put in the spot where the original memorial to Alice Swanson was located. Activist Legba Carrefour, the Columbia Heights resident behind the bikes, had pledged to ensure that the single memorial bike was replaced each time the…
Photo by MikaAltscan Head over to why.i.hate.dc for a photo and update on the 22 ghost bikes that were placed all around the intersection of Connecticut and R NW a week ago. Looks like someone decided to let activist Legba Carrefour know they aren’t fond of his bikes.All of the remaining ghost bikes near Connecticut and R have been piled up at two locations, outside of the Cosi and at the site of the…
Courtesy Eric Gilliland The D.C. Department of Public Works finally got back to us on our question about what will be done with the 22 brand new ghost bikes that have been placed around the intersection of Connecticut and R Streets NW by activist Legba Carrefour … kinda. Here’s the boilerplate statement we received via email from DPW spokesperson Linda Grant:”… the DC Department of Public Works is responsible for removing sidewalk memorials, which…
Early this morning, 22 new ghost bikes appeared around the intersection of Connecticut Avenue, R and 20th Streets NW. There were put there by Columbia Heights resident Legba Carrefour, in an effort to protest the city’s recent removal of the Alice Swanson ghost bike by the city. Alice’s original ghost bike was placed in front of the La Tomate restaurant by the Washington Area Bicycle Association shortly after her death a little over a year…
Flickr contributor vassieux snapped this shot of the “ghost bike” for Alice Swanson, who was killed Tuesday morning while riding her bike north of Dupont Circle. WABA is holding a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. to draw attention to bike safety issues and call for a full investigation into Swanson’s death….
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has just announced a press conference for this evening on the death of bicyclist Alice Swanson. Swanson was killed by a garbage truck just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the cyclist association will install a “ghost bike” at the intersection of Connecticut Ave and Q R Street NW, near the spot where 22-year-old Swanson died, in an effort to highlight the need for better bicycle…
