No More Ghost Bikes by Michigan Ghost Bikes
This is a good time of year to take a moment to be aware of ghost bikes and the important message these plain white bikes are trying to sear into the brain of every driver: Watch out for bikes.
You don’t get a second chance to un-kill or un-maim someone when you hit them with your car, something a nameless driver almost proved on me yesterday when they sped out of a parking lot, nearly hitting me. It only takes a momentary lapse of attention, a glance at the phone or simply a wandering mind can create another of these somber memorials in a heartbeat.
Paul Kissel shared this photo in the Michigan Ghost Bikes group writing Placed a TRIBUTE ghost bike at the Farmers Market downtown Muskegon prior to the Ride of Silence this Wednesday. Hope it reminds passersby of our cause, our purpose, and the reason we pay tribute.
Michigan in Pictures 
It’s sad – people are always in a hurry. There is a ghost bike by Elizabeth Park at Jefferson and Grosse Ile Parkway. I would have liked to know the situation but this is a private FB group.
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Not sure what the Jefferson/Grosse Ile one marks. I’ll ask at the next Detroit Slow Roll
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Thank you – I just took a photograph of it my last time at Elizabeth Park. It is right at that corner.
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Well, I thought I’d Google and found the story … in case it goes to your SPAM since it contains a link, I will put it separately. I subscribe to the “News Herald” but this story from back in 2006 was before there was a paywall.
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Here’s the story on the bicyclist who at West Jefferson and Grosse Ile Parkway:
https://www.thenewsherald.com/2006/10/03/police-seeking-witnesses-to-fatal-bicycle-accident/
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Thank you Linda. Poor old dude just wanted to ride his bike… :/
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Yes, very sad isn’t it? That is a busy street corner though, but no excuse. This is not a traditional ghost bike. Someone leaned a bike against a utility pole and spray painted it there, so there is white paint sprayed onto the utility pole.
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