Good job concerned citizen Tony Cameron. Good job Matt Davis. Good job McMenamins.

March 16 Sparling's family filed suit against the driver and the company.

See - http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2…

I would like to thank Matt Davis, the Portland Mercury, Tony Cameron and the Crystal Ballroom and McMenamin’s for reinstalling Tracey’s Ghost bike.
We did not ask Paul, the property manager to return the bike. My husband merely inquired why they finally decided to remove the bike and if he could get it for me.
This was not Tracey’s actual bike, but strangely enough, Tracey’s ghost bike has become a symbol for the precious, beautiful , loving young lady that was ripped from our family when she was crushed at that corner by a cement truck.
I am surprised at how shocked and upset and depressed I became with the knowledge of the removal of the bike.
Nopojoe, only the Lord knows how much I wished I could “just get over” the horrific death of my niece and put this nightmare behind me.
I did not realize until the bike was gone, what an amazing comfort it has been this past year and a half.
Post #2, yes this is a rather shitty spot in town, but we never chose to have Tracey die there.
We realize it cannot be a permanent fixture and we appreciate the members of Mc Menamin’s and the community that help keep it clean.
The city has graciously allowed Tracey’s ghost bike to exist. We are in communication with McMenamin’s to allow us some closure and arrange to remove the bike at some point in the future.
We appreciate the symbol it has become for many, to be vigilant and aware of your surroundings while traveling the roads of this fair city. We gain peace at the knowledge that the tragic death of our dear Tracey has led to infrastructure changes that may hopefully spare other families from our agony.

Don't be a prick, long-name.

"if there was a ghost bike for every cyclist killed by a car, we couldn't walk down the street"

A little hyperbolic. There would be maybe a few dozen in the whole Portland metro area, even for several decades worth of crashes, so it would still be possible to walk hundreds of blocks in any direction in most places without ever seeing a Ghost Bike. The statement makes it sound as though anyone venturing out on a bike is going to definitely get creamed, but actually biking on average (in number of deaths per mile travelled) is statistically safer than driving.

I didn't bother correcting Matt on this, but what I said was that if there was a memorial on the sidewalk for "everyone ever killed on the street" (not just bicyclists) then we couldn't walk down the sidewalk. A weird and perhaps irrelevant point to make, but that IS what I said. Organic is right. Biking isn't that dangerous and ghost bikes risk giving the impression that it is. I struggle with that. My point was that these bikes are rightfully ephemeral, not that there's blood in the streets and that dead cyclists are a dime a dozen. In fact, there were no bike fatalities in the city of Portland last year.

Tracey's family has done a great job redecorating the bike. It is kind of McMenamins to continue to allow this memorial. I'm interested to see what a more permanent memorial arrangement might look like.