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Irishtown Ghost bike?

  • 23-06-2013 3:38pm
    #1
    tomc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Anyone know the story of the apparent ghost bike in Irishtown, saw it there as I passed this morning, think it was beside the Garda station though there was markings on it is was painted white and has a old bunch of flowers on it?

    TomC


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  • #2
    dermabrasion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭dermabrasion


    I think these are very powerful images. These began to pop-up where I was living in Canada, and I found them quite powerful visually to make one stop reflect on what is at stake about cycling and road safety. This was in the context of an intensely vitriolic and spite-ful online and print media debate on about bad cyclists v. bad drivers. who owns the road...ect. Kind of what we've seen here recently, but a touch more nasty.
    I am not sure how I would feel if if it was my sons bike. I would think I'd find it immensely painful and lonely to have to pass by it. But that said, it puts this whole thing in perspective, for me at least.


  • #3
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,853 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    dermabrasion wrote: »
    I am not sure how I would feel if if it was my sons bike.

    I might be picking you up wrong here, but they don't use the bike involved in the collision or whatever resulted in the cyclist's death. They just get some bike and paint it white and leave it at the location.

    I agree they make a powerful image. In fact, if I had to think of a marketing campaign to associate cycling with death, I think I couldn't do better than putting up ghost bikes all around the country.

    Obviously, many others disagree, and I respect that. I'm not being sarcastic. I genuinely think they are completely counterproductive.


  • #4
    Doctor Bob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I agree they make a powerful image. In fact, if I had to think of a marketing campaign to associate cycling with death, I think I couldn't do better than putting up ghost bikes all around the country.

    Obviously, many others disagree, and I respect that. I'm not being sarcastic. I genuinely think they are completely counterproductive.

    Fully agreed.

    What's more, in this case I'm not sure that it's even a proper ghost bike as I've never heard of a cycling fatality at that location.

    Discussed briefly here before: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72046165


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