PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A bike memorializing a 19-year-old college student who died in 2007 after being struck by a truck in Portland is being moved from a busy sidewalk to a church.
The Oregonian reports that the so-called “ghost bike” for Tracey Sparling is being moved to the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish’s bicycle shrine, giving it a permanaent home.
Last year employees from a restaurant near where the bike is parked clipped the chain and removed it, not knowing that family and friends continued to place flowers at the site remembering Sparling.
Since about 2005, nearly 15 ghost bikes have been installed around Portland as somber reminders of a bicyclist’s death.
