City workers on Friday collected and removed what remained of the 22 "ghost bikes" that had been placed around Connecticut and R Streets, the Post is reporting, including the locked-up bike that was put in the spot where the original memorial to Alice Swanson was located. Activist Legba Carrefour, the Columbia Heights resident behind the bikes, had pledged to ensure that the single memorial bike was replaced each time the city removed it, and he says he plans to keep his word. It just might take him a couple days.

"Irony of ironies, I was struck by a driver in Adams Morgan while cycling and I'm laid up at the moment," Carrefour told DCist via email on Friday.

Carrefour said the driver who hit him was ticketed, and he expects to make a full recovery.

As for getting another Alice Swanson bike in place, on Monday he wrote that while "there are two [bikes] already painted white as back ups," he "won't be able to do it for a few days more (leg still hurts)."

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