Ghost bike

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Ghost wheel in Berlin (2009)
Ghost Bike in Munich (2018)

Ghost Bike (also: Mahnrad , Geisterrad ) is the idea that originated in the USA to erect white-painted bicycles as memorials for cyclists who died in road traffic at the scene of the accident. In addition to their function as memorials, they should also point out possible danger points.

distribution

Ghost Bike in New York City

The first 20 Ghostbikes were set up in 2003 in St. Louis , Missouri, USA . Other cities in the United States were Albany, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia, Gainesville, Highlands Ranch, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, New York City, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Portland, Reno, Richmond, San Francisco , Santa Cruz, Seattle, Sedona, State College, Tucson, Tallahassee. Further Ghostbikes were set up in Canada ( Edmonton 2007 and Toronto ), Brazil ( São Paulo 2006) and Australia ( Hobart ). In Europe, actions from Germany and Austria are known, as well as from Great Britain ( Brighton and Hove , London, Manchester and Oxford ), Hungary (Budapest) and the Czech Republic (Prague).

Ghost Bike in Oxford (England)

Germany

As part of the Ghost Bikes campaign on February 14, 2009 in Berlin, eleven ghost bikes were set up by the ADFC Berlin at the locations of the eleven cyclists who died in 2008 . Since 2010, when seven cyclists had fatal accidents in Cologne, the ADFC has also been setting up ghost bikes at the accident sites, including for a 57-year-old woman who died in Lindenthal in 2010 and a 29-year-old trauma surgeon who died in Ehrenfeld in 2013 , both of whom were overlooked by truck drivers when turning, and for a student who was killed in 2015 in Deutz as bystanders in an illegal car race.

On October 29, 2011, Critical Mass activists installed a ghost bike on the Inn Bridge at the foot of the Schloßberg in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria . In Nuremberg, at the Gleißbühlstrasse / Blumenstrasse intersection, a ghost bike was also installed for a 44-year-old cyclist who fell victim to a truck turning right on October 28, 2013. A comparable project came into being in Langenfeld in 2005 , whereby so-called warning wheels are set up at recognized danger spots in road traffic.

In 2013, the first ghost bike was set up in Nuremberg on the corner of Gleißbühlstrasse and Blumenstrasse in memory of a 44-year-old cyclist who died in a collision with a semi-trailer. A second memorial was set up in summer 2017 for a 33-year-old who was the victim of an accident with a truck turning right on the corner of Vogelweiherstrasse and Ulmenstrasse, and a third in commemoration in summer 2019 on the corner of Seumestrasse and Jitzhak-Rabin Strasse to a 30-year-old cyclist who was also killed in an accident with a truck turning right. The first Ghostbike in Göttingen was also set up in 2013; at the end of 2017 there were ten. In Hamburg, 500 Critical-Mass cyclists set up a ghost bike on January 31, 2014 for an 18-year-old cyclist who had been killed the day before and was run over by a truck turning right on a cycle path. Another was installed on October 28, 2016 at the intersection of Wandsbeker Chaussee / Ritterstrasse for a 19-year-old cyclist who was fatally injured when a truck turned right. At the beginning of April 2014, a ghost bike was set up in Osnabrück for a 20-year-old who was overlooked by a truck driver. Several white wheels were also installed in Magdeburg on the initiative of the ADFC. On July 30, 2015, a ghost bike was installed in Augsburg for a young woman who had fallen victim to a truck turning right a month earlier. In Munich , on the corner of Knorrstrasse and Petuelring, there is a ghost bike erected in 2016 as a memorial to a 53-year-old cyclist who was killed there in 2013. In September 2018, three ghost bikes were set up in Frankfurt / Main. This went back to a private initiative of Frankfurt cyclists, with the support of Radentscheid Frankfurt and the ADFC Frankfurt. In August 2018, a total of four cyclists were killed on Frankfurt's streets. In June 2019, the ADFC installed a ghost bike on Universitätsallee in Bremen for a cyclist who had an accident in April. After a cyclist suffered fatal injuries in an accident with a truck, a ghost bike was installed in Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld on June 28, 2019, with the participation of City Councilor Gerhard Fontagnier as part of a vigil ride.

Several ghost bikes have been set up in the Ruhr area since 2016:

  • Bottrop: Junction Devensstr./Bahnhofstraße
  • Dortmund: At the intersections Rüschebrinkstraße / Springorumstraße, Mallinckrodtstraße / Leopoldstraße and Bornstraße / Glückaufstraße
  • Essen: Bismarckplatz
  • Lünen: Preußenstrasse / Kurler Strasse
  • Mülheim: Frohnhauser Weg
  • Duisburg: container terminal / Lord Mayor Lehr Bridge, Ruhrorter roundabout, intersection Mündelheimerstraße / Kaiserswertherstraße
  • Düren: Aachener Str.
  • Dorsten: Clemens-August-Str.

Austria

In March 2008 in Vienna at the intersection Felberstraße / Schweglerstraße in was Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus by the IG bike set up a ghost bike. It should be thought of a cyclist who was killed in an accident in April 2007. Due to numerous complaints and the prevailing legal situation, the ghost bike had to be removed the next day (according to the road traffic regulations, it is forbidden to chain bicycles to traffic lights or traffic signs; however, this is only enforced by the police in the event of complaints). IG Fahrrad removed the ghost bike after being informed by the responsible municipal department.

According to Ghostbikes.org, two more ghost bikes were set up in Vienna, namely at the intersection of Erdberger Straße and Erdberger Steg as well as Hernalser Gürtel and Hernalser Hauptstraße.

In Graz / Wetzelsdorfer street at the meadow slope of the railway underpass - was in December 2008 at the corner of Carinthian Don Bosco a first ghost bike by ARGUS Styria and bicycle kitchen Graz installed. The student who had been involved in the accident collided and was fatally injured in November with a truck turning right, the driver of which was restricted in his mirror vision by cornering.

For two rather older cyclists who also died on the right of a truck turning right at intersections , two were charged on December 30, 2011 at the Inffeld- / Petersgasse intersection, Graz and on September 28, 2012 at the Seiersberg intersection , Triester Straße 472 set up more ghost wheels. While the first lasted a few weeks, the second was soon removed at the request of close relatives.

As part of the monthly Critical Mass trip (CM) in July 2014, a white bike was set up at the intersection of Lager- / Zweiglgasse - for a 64-year-old living not far in Rankengasse who entered the intersection on June 6th after ignoring a stop sign drove in and was rammed by a vehicle with an 81-year-old driver coming from across and braking. The cyclist died at the scene of the accident.

In April 2015, a 46-year-old was killed on the way home from his workplace by opening a car door in front of Belgiergasse 7, a 74-year-old died from the same accident mechanism on Felix-Dahn-Platz. During the CM ride on May 29, a white bike was set up near the accident sites and Argus Steiermark started a campaign for a 1.2 m lateral safety distance between cyclists and stationary cars.

In February 2018 in Vienna, a ghost bike was set up on the Praterstern near the Lasallestrasse confluence during a ghost bike ride for a 72-year-old cyclist who was hit by a car driver at the end of January and died that day from his injuries.

A ghost bike set up several years ago in Graz at Riesplatz in front of the LKH-Ost for a woman killed here is still standing today (as of May 2019).

In April 2019 a ghost bike was driven in front of the parish church Thondorf / St. Christoph, Liebenauer Hauptstrasse 291, for a 54-year-old killed by a car in March when turning left or leaning into the car. Rainer Maichin made sound recordings in his series "Morgen" on Radio Helsinki .

With the 125th CM in July 2019 in Graz-Andritz on the asphalted cycle path, which has been accompanying the newly constructed bed of the Andritzbach as flood protection since December 2016, the widening to a rest bay (e.g. at N47.100488, E15.413574) set up a ghost bike. Nearby, on June 13, 2019, a 65-year-old from Graz fell on an electric bicycle with or because of an oncoming 28-year-old and died of head injuries in the hospital the day after next .

Others

The German dealer GHOST-Bikes GmbH has been selling mountain bikes under the brand name GHOST since 1999 or longer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ghostbikes.org - St. Louis
  2. ^ Matthias Pesch: Accidents at Dürener Straße / Gürtel risk intersection for cyclists , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, October 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tim Stinauer: Killed cyclist in Ehrenfeld "Geisterrad" is supposed to remind of an accident , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, April 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Tim Stinauer: Illegal race in Cologne: " Death racers " drove at 100 km / h over the Auenweg , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, August 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Dumming wheels wake up cyclists and motorists ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cityjournal24.de
  6. ↑ Ghostbike in Nuremberg: Memorial for killed cyclists on nordbayern.de, from November 26, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2020
  7. ↑ Second "ghost bike" commemorates a killed cyclist on nordbayern.de, from June 1, 2017, accessed on June 9, 2020
  8. ↑ After a fatal bike accident: Third ghost bike set up on nordbayern.de, from July 4, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2020
  9. ↑ That's why there are white bicycles on the roadside in Göttingen. In: HNA. September 6, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ghostbikes are reminiscent of fatal accidents with cyclists in Göttingen
  11. ↑ http://www.mopo.de/nachrichten/mahnmal-am-unfallort-ein--ghostbike--fuer-kaethe---18-,5067140,26056912.html
  12. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamburg-nord/hohenfelde/article124422236/Fahrraddemo-zum-Gedenken-an-verstorbene-18-Jaehrige.html?cid=hamburg
  13. ↑ https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/friedlicher-fahrrad-protest--eine-critical-mass-wie-in-alten-zeiten--24997660
  14. ↑ https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/polizei/drama-in-eilbek-radlerin--19--von-laster-ueberrollt---tot--24882502
  15. ↑ http://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/464652/erstes-ghostbike-in-osnabruck-aufständig#lightbox&0&1&464652
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / adfc-sachsen-anhalt.de
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  18. ↑ Martin Bernstein: Turning right as a deadly danger. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 27, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  19. ↑ http://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/181119.html
  20. ↑ Radentscheid Frankfurt
  21. ↑ Accident with tram: 27-year-old cyclist is in mortal danger - buten inside. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  22. ^ Mannheim: Cyclist dies in an accident with a truck - Mannheimer Morgen. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  23. ↑ cki: After a serious bicycle accident: Ghost bike parked at the scene of the accident. June 28, 2019, accessed on June 28, 2019 (German).
  24. ↑ Ghost Bikes - VeloWikiRuhr. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  25. ↑ "Duisburg. But sure! ”Ghost bike warns of the fatal bicycle traffic accident in Huckingen. On duisburg.de from October 31, 2018 ; accessed on December 17, 2018
  26. ↑ ORF Vienna - MA 48 to remove “Ghost Bike” ORF, March 19, 2008
  27. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC-Q26M5sPQ ghostbike graz, wonderbirds first report, channel from uwesat, youtube.com from December 24, 2008 (discussions, road trip on Kärntner Straße)
  28. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p38VpRQM98 Critical Mass with Ghost Bike Ride on September 28, 2012 in Graz, with a speech by Heidi Schmitt (chairwoman Argus Stmk.), Video by Rainer Maichin, youtube. com dated October 1, 2012
  29. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Images of Ghost Bikes in Graz, dated, accessed July 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qwant.com
  30. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radlobby ARGUS Steiermark starts distance campaign, Radlobby ARGUS, Graz, end of May / beginning of June 2015. Accessed on June 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / graz.radln.net
  31. ↑ Another ghost bike for Vienna , Wiener Zeitung, February 15, 2018 - 4 images, with reproduction of the A4 sign on the GB.
  32. ↑ Ghostbike Ride Vienna February 2018 radlobby.at, February 16, 2018 - 4:38 pm, accessed February 27, 2018.
  33. ↑ After 3 years, another fatal accident with a cyclist in Graz radlobby.at, April 6, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019.
  34. ↑ Critical Mass - Departure 5 p.m.! radlobby.at, April 26, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019.
  35. ↑ April 2019 - Ghostbike for Graz cba.fro.at, May 10, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019. Audio (30:40)
  36. ↑ Walk and cycle path Andritzbach graz.at, City of Graz, January 12, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019.
  37. ^ Andritzbach: Expansion of the lower reaches in the final phase steiermark.at, December (2016), accessed August 11, 2019.
  38. ↑ Critical Mass / Ghostbike Ride - Departure 5:00 p.m. radlobby.at, announcement for July 26, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019.
  39. ↑ E-bike rider died in hospital after an accident in Graz derstandard.at, June 15, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019.
  40. ↑ site ghost-bikes.com

Web links

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