Bikes Reincarnate
Keep an eye out for these creepy bikes from the netherword around town starting today. Ghostcycle is planting them at various locations to raise awareness of the death-defying nature of riding a bicycle in the city and to remind you that when your car and a bike attempt to occupy the same space at the same time bad things will happen, generally to the bike and the person on it.
From their site:
The intent of the Ghostcycle project is to raise awareness regarding bicyclists on the streets of Seattle. Our city is one of the most bike-friendly cities in North America, but things can always improve. We began to use this website to collect data from cyclists in the Seattle-area who have been involved in an accident while bicycling. As the information began pouring in, patterns arose and we were able to identify and isolate trouble spots all over Seattle. On August 1, “ghostcycles” were placed in each of those trouble locations to make people start asking questions and direct them to our website where all of the information we collected is readily available.
Look here for their cool Google Maps application identifying the GhostCycle locations.
As an aside:
We didn't mind it when Critical Mass almost made us late for an event on Friday. We were stuck at a bridge, though, and couldn't see the bikes. We were shouting obcenities out the window at anything with a vaguely tall mast, and to all the poor souls who were victims of our derision at that time, we're sorry. We realize it wasn't your obnoxiously large sailing vessels that were making us late, and we hope nothing happens to you, despite what we said. It was the bicycles, after all. And who can blame bicycles.
