BIKE: Roadside displays focus on plight of bicyclists

[Fred Meredith]

>I picked this up from the bicycle advocacy list and it sounds like a 
>pretty simple form of spreading the word if anybody is interested in 
>discussing it further for Austin.



>Roadside displays focus on plight of bicyclists
>
>11/17/2003 
>
>Bicycling enthusiasts locked 15 mangled bikes
>to street lamps and sign posts in the area
>where riders where struck by cars. 
>
>By Greg Jonsson 
>Of the Post-Dispatch 
>
>
>When Patrick Van Der Tuin saw another cyclist
>hit by a vehicle while riding in a bike lane on Holly
>Hills Boulevard a few weeks ago, it was the final
>straw. 
>
>He decided the time had come for an idea that
>had been in the back of his mind for a while. So
>one night, a twisted bike, painted ghostly white
>and sporting a "Cyclist Struck Here" sign,
>appeared at the site where the woman was
>struck. The bike was removed within a few days,
>but Van Der Tuin thought it had an impact. 
>
>"Passing it every day, I could see the reaction
>from drivers," said Van Der Tuin, 24. "People
>were slowing down in this residential
>neighborhood, and that amazed me." 
>
>A picture of the mangled bike also went up on the
>Internet, and the Web site quickly recorded more
>than a thousand hits. Clearly, the idea struck a
>chord with other cyclists, he thought. 
>
>Sample ghost bike photo:
>http://www.pbase.com/image/22744084
>
>Complete article:
>http://tinyurl.com/vg6g
>
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Fred Meredith, LCI Consultant
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