I’m kind of appalled at the placement of memorials at the side of the road for lost loved ones. I never saw it until I moved to KY. They are everywhere. And some have been up for many years, complete with solar powered lights.
That is what graveyards are for.
I’d like to see the governor ween the state off this sort of thing with a law permitting their placement to remain for a maximum of 90 days, followed a few years later by a law making them illegal.
Again, that is what graveyards are for.
I agree. Where I live in PA, it started with a cross or ribbon on the side of the road where someone died. The state didn’t take the memorials away, perhaps out of the well-intentioned but ultimately misguided belief that it would remind motorists that people die on the highway. But then they started expanding with candles and flowers and other things that you would put at a grave. The beer doesn’t surprise me. If that is what this woman liked in life, people are going to put it there on the memorial. Once the state starts allowing this on the roadside, it opens a Pandora’s box. I think they should be removed, or the people putting it there should be politely told to put it on the grave instead.
You should see them in California. The Mexicans here turn them into shrines, complete with the tall Mexican prayer candles.
I’ve noticed a few crosses here and there...but the most peculiar (and organized) roadside memorial I’ve seen is a white bicycle:
Whenever I see one, I momentarily think there is a person riding a bicycle...about to enter traffic.
Roadside memorials are a distraction to drivers and should be banned. We don’t see these memorials in hospital rooms or other places where someone has died and the roadside should be no different. I agree that grave yards have a purpose. My front yard is not a grave yard and please don’t expect me to allow someone’s family to place a memorial to their loved one’s place of death there.
My son would be 30 today if I hadnt lost him in a car accident. I have never been to the site. I know where it is and avoid it. I don’t know if any of his friends did one of these memorials but they are common here. If they help someone with healing or closure or whatever then maybe that’s OK. Personally I think they’re tacky.
there is maybe a 20 yard by 10 yard piece of land in between some roads on Staten Island. It is a 911 Memorial. called Angel Circle with these kind of tributes. It is not threatening to motorists. I see these other memorials on the streets a lot too and I don’t know what to think of them. After a while they are going to pile up pretty much every other block.
Agree. They should be banned. The junk they pile around the area ends up in the road. They're nothing but a distraction and can cause more wrecks. And don't get me started on beer bottles.
Agreed. Your idea is good.
I believe the roadside markers began back around 1968 when some cities started putting up crosses, one for each auto death from many years before, along the roads.
The road between Conway and Little Rock AR (before the interstate roads) had dozens of crosses!
Then one day they all disappeared. If a monument was placed for each death, from the building of the road, there are many roads that would have hundreds alongside them.
You’re a control freak about everything
I’m sure Kentucky will be fine anyhow