Many San Franciscans will ride in silence on Wednesday May 15 to remember the lives of those cyclists who lost their lives while riding.
The week of May 23, 2013, should have been a big one for Dylan Mitchell: It was the 21-year-old’s first week as an electrician apprentice, and his first week living in San Francisco. A native of Clayton — just east of Concord in Contra Costa County — Mitchell grew up in a family of electricians four-generations deep.
Dylan Mitchell is one of the more than 40 people – since 1997 – killed on San Francisco streets while riding bicycles, according to the organizers of tomorrow’s. Since the event’s creation in 2003, every third Wednesday of May sees thousands worldwide attending bike rides that pay homage to cyclists who have been killed on the road.
The event has its roots in Dallas, where Chris Phelan organized the first such ride in 2003 to honor the memory of his friend, who was hit and killed when a bus struck him from behind. It was also a Thursday morning, like the day Mitchell was killed in San Francisco, and almost exactly 10 years prior to the latter’s death. of events that has taken the Ride of Silence to hundreds of cities across the world. Last year, at least 223 cities in 16 different countries on five continents participated.
San Francisco’s ride will start at 6 p.m. at In Chan Kaajal Park at 17th and Folsom in the Mission District and will makebefore it reaches City Hall where organizers plan to install a white-painted bicycle, known as a ghost bike, right in front of the building. City Hall will then light up in white as a gesture of solidarity.
“We didn’t do the ride silently per their request to play favorite playlist. The daughter said that it was her first day she smiled and felt good about her dad since he passed away 20-something days before,” said Alvarado. “It provided a great level of closure to celebrate his life.” “It’s extremely touching and really it’s very emotional. It’s nice to see that other people care and that they still remember my son and feel that his life was worth something,” said Mitchell. “That he wasn’t just a statistic on the street, and that he meant something even to people that never even met him before. It just always touches my heart every year how caring everybody is.”
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