I am sure you are going to be deluged with letters about your headline feature in last week's Echo – April 17 – 'End of the road for flowers', but I really felt I needed to have my say also.
I personally don't care for these memorials.
But for the family whose loved one's life ended on that spot, then they should be allowed to place some kind of memorial there. I actually find them quite distracting as I drive, but they also serve to
remind me of that person who lost their life there – and that generally makes me drive slower!
So HOW DARE Cambridgeshire County Council even consider such an insensitive move when that road is the death trap that it is!
It's a pity they don't spend the time and money they will put into re-moving these memorials into beginning to sort out the problems on that road that have led to the deaths of so many people.
They should hang their heads in shame, to be honest – that they allow as dangerous a road as that to be in constant, everyday use!
I once saw a piece on TV about a road in New Zealand that for whatever reason was claiming the lives of many people and every time there was a fatality a simple but 'effective' cross was erected to remind people that someone had lost a life on that spot and that as a driver you should consider this and slow down.
Okay, maybe some of the memorials are a bit 'over the top' – but let's not ever forget exactly what happened at that spot and afford the people left behind, and who will feel that loss forever, the right to place some kind of memorial there for posterity.
It's time something was done on the A1307 road – there's enough land either side of it to dual it from here to Cambridge (almost).
Yes, I know it would cost millions – but one life saved would be worth it.
Glynis Evans,
Wratting Road,
Haverhill.
The full article contains 343 words and appears in Haverhill Echo newspaper.
