'Ghost Bike' Will Be Dedicated to Cyclist Who Died Biking in Brookline

BROOKLINE, MA — Friends, family and members of the Boston-area cycling community will gather Thursday to dedicate a ghost bike for cyclist Bannon Williamson, who died riding his bicycle in Brookline.

A Facebook event page instructs mourners to gather at 6 p.m. on the corner of Colchester and Chapel Streets in Brookline. A Ghost Bike will be locked to a pole there.

The event organizers write, "We gather to dedicate a ghost bike, a visible sign of an invisible reality- that we are fragile humans, only here for a little while. We gather to make visible sign of a dawning awareness- that we must peacefully coexist on these shared roads for all of us to stay alive. We gather honor Bannon's life, to pray for all who grieve his death, to rededicate ourselves to the day when there are zero fatalities on our city’s roads, a peaceable city, not paved with gold but with protected cycletracks."

For more on ghost bikes, consider reading: Who Paints Boston's Ghost Bikes?

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