Cycle campaigning

For the same reason, I am conflicted about ghost bikes. On the one hand, I understand why we don't want to forget the individual. However, on the other, again it can be a regular reminder of something terrible that is still, statistically, very unlikely to happen.

I'm actually in favour of roadside memorials, but they should be roadside memorials for all killed in traffic, and be relatively small, still noticeable but small, to be sustainable and not obstructive. Certainly, singling out cycling deaths only is also counter-productive. Why ignore pedestrian deaths, for instance? RoadPeace have got it right with their small signs. They don't tend to get taken down and they don't look as tatty as those bunches of wilted flowers (even if they're renewed regularly). If you were to really go for it, you'd need memorials for car drivers killed, pedestrians killed, etc. If you just stuck up a display of those at the Elephant and Castle northern roundabout, who knows, it might well spur change. Most people are probably completely unaware how many lives have been claimed at that junction.