Oh.
This morning.
Clive writes:
Outside four star accommodation at corner of Lansdowne Road (Ballsbridge, Dublin 4). Not very accommodating.
Meanwhile…
Yesterday.
Portobello, Dublin 8
Sheila Larkin writesL
Dear Dublin City Council. Please look up Ghostbikes.org before removing this bike.
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Yes, those white bikes are memorials to cyclists who were killed in road accidents and they are a sombre reminder to be aware of cyclists and for cyclists to be aware of other road users.
Surely they’re a reminder for drivers to be careful and take care of vulnerable cyclists?
Read my comment again.
Kind of fitting it’s on the footpath then.
That bike is a memorial to a man who killed by a truck at Harold’s Cross a few years ago. I’m sure his family and friends will think your comment is in really good taste.
Nice idea, but would a sign not work better?
Would it not be best to make a memorial that doesn’t look like abandoned rubbish and didn’t require the council to read up on any possible campaigns being made online?
Not everything needs to be ‘official’.
that bike has been there since 2009
http://ghostbikes.org/dublin/zu-zhang-wong
Nothing wrong with the first note, if a tad OTT at worst.
Investing a “locked bikes will be removed” sign might be an idea, though instead of getting snotty with someone straight out of the gate.
+1 …it’s a bit ‘angry’ for a first warning :)
Exhibit D. I could go on …
Please do. You’re a real insightful commentator
Ah here put up a small plaque or something but abandoning a bike until times end is just littering.
what about just stop killing cyclists?
What about cyclists stop wearing such annoying clothes?
You mean the brightly coloured ones that make you actually see them?
do you wear a camera on your helmet?
*wear
No. But I do wear a hi viz to make me visible to bad motorists.
The correction of nothing just highlighted how bad that comment was Harry.
I could have sworn I saw “were” instead of “wear”!
I do struggle with typing
What did the colonoscopy patient ask the Dr?
Answer: “do you wear a camera on your helmet?”
I think the ghost bikes are a good thing but that one is particularly poor and maybe he didn’t realise, all the paint chipped off it and it’s hard to tell what it is.
If they are being left in those locations permanently it may be a good idea te repaint yearly?
seems a kinda grungy way to mark the spot of someones death. Loving father of two, adored by all who met him, John will be missed … here’s a tatty beat up piece of poo bike painted white with a stencil tag of a website on it containing the word ‘ghost’
There’s too many memorials to road deaths, I’d like to take a hammer to a few of them.
on the first bike, many stolen bikes are locked up elsewhere until they are moved on as lads dont want ot be caught with them at home.
so cut away i say
So you assume all locked bikes are stolen bikes?
Tasteful, temporary reminders have more impact. Such as the campaign to mark all road deaths with a cross for a few weeks.
Bikes like this fade in significance as people get used to seeing it – they become invisible. Eventually all they do is serve to hinder pedestrians and maintenance of railings.
Not really, Skeptik. Everyone who cycles or drives past Emmet Bridge in Harold’s Cross sees, each time, the memorial white bike to the Chinese cyclist killed by a jacknifing artic there. Especially as local people and passing cyclists still regularly place flowers on it.
Mind you, a curved plaque fitted to the crossbar of each ghost bike with the name of the cyclist and the day, date and time of his or her death would be useful.
By the way, 71 people have been killed on the roads this year already. We’re pretty casual about that.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/seventy-one-people-have-died-on-the-state-s-roads-in-2016-1.2665059
Aside from the ghost bikes thing. This shows the limitations of DCC’s bike removal policy. If a bike has two flat tyres and no chain I’m pretty sure nobody is coming back for it so why waste time checking on it repeatedly.
Just remove the tag & keep the memorial?
Sheila needs to dismount that large horse. I’ve never heard of ghostbikes in my life. Maybe DCC haven’t either.
it’s a nice tribute but it’s up to ghostbikes to inform DCC of the tribute, not up to DCC to check if every piece of rusting metal chained to railings belongs to some non-profit organisation
dear Sheila
please stop caring about real things that affect real people and instead try taking account of my petty trolling
yours, rotten commentator
:)