mark stonehill

The folk tradition of placing a “ghost bike” at the site where a bicyclist has been struck and killed has only recently taken hold in the Twin Cities. Yet when the call went out Sunday for a ghost bike ceremony to be held in St. Paul, some 30 hours after the latest cyclist fatality, it was too late. Someone had already chained a spray-painted bike to a stop sign a few feet from where Virginia Heuer died Saturday after being struck by an SUV — the fourth such death in less than a month.