About Cycling Advocacy

What is this?

Cycling Advocacy is a directory of bicycle advocacy organizations across the United States and beyond — from local neighborhood groups pushing for safer streets to national organizations shaping cycling policy.

The map also tracks ghost bike memorials — the white bicycles placed at sites where cyclists have been killed, serving as a reminder that roads must be made safer for everyone.

Data sources

Ghost bike memorial data is consolidated from the projects below. We deduplicate against location, push community-submitted updates back to OpenStreetMap, and credit each record with its origin (visible on every memorial page).

• OpenStreetMap — the canonical public memorial database. Tags historic=memorial + memorial=ghost_bike. Synced nightly via the OSM minutely replication diffs.
• ghostbikes.org — the original community memorial registry, maintained for nearly two decades. We use an archive mirror of the legacy Drupal site.
• Houston Ghost Bikes (Google MyMaps) — the Houston-area memorial map.
• Austin Ghost Bikes (Google MyMaps) — the Austin-area memorial map.
• Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area ghost bike inventory (ArcGIS) — the GTHA feature service.
• Ghost Bikes of Queens by Bri Caszatt — a neighborhood-level mapping project for Queens, NY. Source on GitHub.
• London Remembers — Ghost Bikes — community-documented memorials in greater London.
• Community submissions through this site, reviewed by editors before publication.

Cyclist fatality data on the map comes from the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a U.S. Department of Transportation dataset of fatal crashes on public roadways.

Advocacy organization listings are seeded from a hand-curated spreadsheet and extended by editors and verified org owners.

To add or correct a listing, sign in with Google and use the submit form on any group or memorial page.

Mobile app

A mobile app is in development.

OpenStreetMap contributions

This site acts as a review buffer for OSM edits related to cycling infrastructure and memorials. Signed-in users can propose changes; editors and administrators review and submit approved changes to OSM via the official API.

API

A public REST API is available for developers building cycling apps.