This morning, tragically, a 50-year-old woman was killed. Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to her loved ones. She was riding a bike when she was hit by a large truck, but she was not simply a "cyclist". She was a person with friends and family, a part of her community: she was an individual human, as we all are, and her life was meaningful, as all of our lives are.

EBC has installed a ghost bike at the site of the collision. These memorials do not lay blame, and are not meant to be overtly political, but rather they serve as a reminder that we all share these roads and need to take care of each other.

Riding a bike, walking, or driving to work: these things do not define a person's life. Our ghost bike memorial serves as a reminder of the realities we face on the road and the realities we are working to make better, but it is not meant to take away from the fact that a life was lost today: a life that means so much more than simply this morning's choice of transportation. Truly, the senselessness of this is that a person's choice of transportation should never carry the weight of a life-or-death decision.