Tribute to Eric Ng
Eric Ng, a 22-year-old cyclist and teacher, was killed Dec. 1, 2006 by a drunk driver as he rode his bike on the Hudson River Greenway. This memorial ride and "Ghost Bike" installation was organized by Time's Up! and Visual Resistance.
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Speaker: [01:01] I’m proud to be able to call Eric my friend. He was… he was just a beautiful soul and a beautiful spirit. I’ve been working on the Ghost Bike Project for over a year and a half and it’s never… it’s never easy. And this one was a whole… a whole different thing, man. This one was… this one was hard.
Speaker: [01:33] Last Friday Eric Ng was biking on the bike path, probably enjoying a beautiful night ride, and a car for some reason, we don’t know why, was driving on the bike path. He was allegedly drunk from a party at Chelsea Piers, and he hit Eric and killed him immediately. And I’ve ridden on this bike path so many times and it’s just such a beautiful place to ride. And you feel basically safe, and imagine riding up there and suddenly seeing a car coming right at you, it just… it’s just so devastating to think about.
Speaker: [02:08]
You know the study that the Department of Transportation, Department
of Health, Parks and Police all collaborated on show that protected
bike lanes were the safest place. And now we’re slowly finding
out that that’s not even safe. So I don’t even know where
to recommend for people to ride their bikes anymore.
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