Comments on: Ghost Bikes Return to Dupont Circle: Alice Swanson Rides Again

By: F1RSTBORN

F1RSTBORN — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:59:56 +0000

As a cyclist, I'm insanely torn by the comments. While there's a lot of valid points in the middle of some, there's a lot of ignorance surrounding them. Please get out of yourselves and look at this for what it is. Like it or not, you've all been made aware of the dangers associated with cycling in a city that historically has not been bike-friendly. To that end...no matter how you got to this awareness...I'd say....mission accomplished.

By: boutermakeghostbikes

boutermakeghostbikes — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:16:36 +0000

Great shots... Funny, i never saw this story, but heard about it all late. I had never considered that making a memorial would bring so much hate.
I got inspired when one of our interns told me about ghost bikes. I started asking my friends for bikes to make more memorials, since I am so saddened by 3 recent cyclist deaths. And no, I didn't know any of them. They just make me sad and I express myself visually, so making something appeals to me.
Now I am ready for angry hateful people to call me stupid, extremist and begging for attention, thank you city paper.

By: yawn

yawn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:54:53 +0000

These comments prove yet once again that DC is a tight ass self serving non artistic complacent community with nothing better to do than go to it's federal/nonprofit/foundation/lawyer job and eat out and lay sterile in bed wondering how life got to be so much fun! Get a life that matters and do something even it means riding a bike from your home to get your take-out five blocks away. And have some compassion for people who choose to protest/create with their time. You don't have to be so bitter because your own life is so dull with no thought of protest. There are lots of bad things that happen in this city wether you choose to believe or not. There are a lot of non-transient residents who will fight and create in these passive times. After all we do live in the nations capital!

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By: Matt R

Matt R — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:57:34 +0000

@No more white bikes -

Not every one who rides a bike wants and can't afford a Mercedes. I feel sorry for you, trapped day after day, hour after hour, getting fat and ugly in you sad little rolling prison. No matter how resplendent it might be, it is still a trap. Face it, you have been conned.

By: Matt R

Matt R — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:47:29 +0000

@DrSkinnyTopps -

Yes I am sure that all the d-bags in cars on their phones are thinking first and foremost about my safety. If you had red the reports of Swanson's accident you would know that multiple witnesses stated that she was proceeding through the green light on R a trash truck over took her and turned right, into her, striking her and killing her.

When I ride, which is everyday, I know I have a bullseye on my back, because drivers don't care, I have had, cars, taxis and metro buses nearly run me down both intentionally and unintentionally, for having the audacity to ride my bike on a public road. And why would they care? When the standard punishment for killing a cyclist is a few hundred dollar fine and higher insurance for a few years.

Get a clue.

By: IMGoph

IMGoph — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:28:20 +0000

thank you, legba.

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By: northeastgroover

northeastgroover — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:20:48 +0000

Someone effectively demonstrates some humanity. Thanks, Legba. Way to be solid for Alice.

By: creativemeat

creativemeat — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:18:31 +0000

@Jim Slattery

While we're on the subject of pedestrian hazards. Can we do anything about the newspaper stands?

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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:48:46 +0000

[...] NW to replace the memorial to biker Alice Swanson removed by the city last week. Everyone covers: WCP once, WCP twice, WaPo, Examiner, WTOP, NC8, WRC-TV, WTTG-TV, DCist, GGW. Yes, DPW has a policy of [...]

By: Charly

Charly — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:01:23 +0000

Being 'unobstructive' and 'poignant' gets far less attention than something of this calibre. Good for Legba. I think everything else that needs to be said has been said, and if you're more concerned about having to take a single step out of the way to avoid a white bike than you are about what it actually represents, you're part of the problem. As someone who has to dodge inattentive drivers daily - thank you, Legba.

By: Jim Slattery

Jim Slattery — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:12:51 +0000

As I've said before, the original bike was a pedestrian hazard. Do something constructing to remember Ms. Swanson, not something confrontational and unsafe.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:36:54 +0000

try that in copenhagen or amsterdam sometime - police report! there are spray-painted bikes all over the place! it must be some kind of protest! we try to remove them, and more keep showing up! hah...

If the city make the kinds of serious infrastructure changes for bikes that those cities have, then some day the city will look like this protest every day.

If you see 22 people riding bikes - is that a protest? Today, maybe you'd say yes. In the future, maybe not.

Today's protest is tomorrow's status-quo.

100 years ago, there were similar protests for automobile safety. as you can see, it paid off. when you see 22 cars parked at the curb, do you call it a protest? when you see 22 cars driving down the street - is that a protest?