Ghost bike will be dedicated to cyclist killed in Porter Square crash
A ghost bike will be dedicated Tuesday evening in memory of a 60-year-old Lexington man who was killed while riding in his bike in Porter Square last week. Event organizers said on Facebook the ghost bike for Bernard “Joe” Lavins will be locked to a pole on Massachusetts Avenue across from the Porter Square T station, near the scene of the crash. “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,” the organizers wrote on Facebook. “We gather honor Joe’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 cycle tracks.”The dedication of a ghost bikes in memory of bicyclists who have been killed began in 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri.As of Tuesday morning, 82 people said they would be attending the 7:30 p.m. ceremony.
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