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Absolutely amazed at how many there are on the roads these days. There'd be 6-7 on the Frankston freeway alone. Today I would have passed 12-15.

Reminds me of a town near Mt Gambier in SA (a paper town???) that has a black marker representing a fatality and a red one a serious injury. You dead set don't realise how many there are.

The roadside memorial seems to now be more prominent than ever before???
 
Originally posted by Falchoon
Absolutely amazed at how many there are on the roads these days. There'd be 6-7 on the Frankston freeway alone. Today I would have passed 12-15.

Reminds me of a town near Mt Gambier in SA (a paper town???) that has a black marker representing a fatality and a red one a serious injury. You dead set don't realise how many there are.

The roadside memorial seems to now be more prominent than ever before???
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yeah , i can't remember ever seeing them prior to the last couple of years though i am sure they existed...
i do a lot of country driving and they seem to be everywhere , theres a stretch of road near berwick where there are three crossess within 200 metres or so...i wonder how many people slow down when they see them?? I am generally a safe driver but when i see one i tend to slow down a little bit.
 

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I seem to see plenty when I go to Queensland. There is one here, on the highway to Warrnambool - from a young guy here who was driving home and hit by a truck. (Even worse is, it was suspected suicide :() It's well over a year old now, but still there. I can't not think of him every time we go past it. They really are sad. :(
 
We have a road side memorial on our main road just south of Adelaide for a little girl who died when her parents car was involved in an accident at the intersection. I was on holiday when it happened but it still upsets me when I see it :(
 
Originally posted by Falchoon
Absolutely amazed at how many there are on the roads these days. There'd be 6-7 on the Frankston freeway alone. Today I would have passed 12-15.
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There use to be a lot on the Princess Freeway between Melbourne & Geelong.When the road was re-built last year,VicRoads gave people a months warning to collect their roadside memorials or they would move them.

There's one near Beckley Park trotting track in Geelong,from a car accident that claimed 3 lives in december.It looks as though the original flowers are still there.
 
I've seen those ones where they have a black marker for every fatality and I really do think they're a good idea, just as a reminder or even a wake-up call to drivers. As a few people have said, they slow down when they see them, or have a really good think about just how many lives have been lost. And if it saves just one person it's worth it.
 
By no means a recent memorial by any stretch of the imagination, but moreso historical...

How about the Avenue of Honour, just past the Arch of Victory, in Ballarat? About a two-kilometre stretch of roadside trees and plaques in rememberance of those Australian soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.

Very old, yes, but still very stirring to look at and quite relevant today. And the Arch of Victory alone is a wonderful structure to behold.
 
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By no means a recent memorial by any stretch of the imagination, but moreso historical...

How about the Avenue of Honour, just past the Arch of Victory, in Ballarat? About a two-kilometre stretch of roadside trees and plaques in rememberance of those Australian soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.

Very old, yes, but still very stirring to look at and quite relevant today. And the Arch of Victory alone is a wonderful structure to behold.
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Those trees need to be just a little further back from the road.
 

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Originally posted by evade28
thats a novel idea... lets cut every tree down within 50m of a road eh, or should we make it 100m? :confused:
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not quite sure on your point?

been down the avenue of honour lately?
 
Originally posted by Falchoon
Those trees need to be just a little further back from the road.
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I agree & get rid of the bloody lamp posts, put in underground wiring everywhere not just a few suburbs, HA HA just thought of something funny, imagine the poor dogs if they got rid of the trees & lamposts of the streets poor bastards would go crossed eyed looking for somehere to take a leak.
 
Originally posted by redback
I agree & get rid of the bloody lamp posts, put in underground wiring everywhere not just a few suburbs,
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there are no lampposts on the avenue of honour
 
Originally posted by Falchoon
Absolutely amazed at how many there are on the roads these days. There'd be 6-7 on the Frankston freeway alone. Today I would have passed 12-15.

Reminds me of a town near Mt Gambier in SA (a paper town???) that has a black marker representing a fatality and a red one a serious injury. You dead set don't realise how many there are.

The roadside memorial seems to now be more prominent than ever before???
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I think the town you're referring to is Keith, on the Western Hwy between ADL and MEL. There is a forest of those black markers, about 1 km from town on the MEL side. Very sad, and always a reminder to stop off, get a Farmers Union, and have a break. I wish all councils/local govts used the black/red markers.

Safe Driving,

Kasey
 

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Driving through Italy, noticed their roadside memorials are full on headstones etc. like you would see in a cemetery. A lot different to our bunches of flowers/wooden crosses etc.

Between Laura and Gladstone in SA on the Main North Highway is a S bend with a stobie pole, there's a cross on it with "HEMMO" and the stobie pole is covered in geraniums, the locals call it "Hemmo's Corner" and everyone slows down for it, definitely serves as a reminder to take it easy.
 
Originally posted by Falchoon
Those trees need to be just a little further back from the road.
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A little hard to do, considering that some of those trees and plaques along the Avenue of Honour have been there for 70, 80 years, if not longer. :confused:

They're far enough off the road where they're not going to cause any accidents. I think it's the vast numbers of trees and plaques that make it so impressive, rather than the inscriptions on those plaques.
 
We have about 4 crosses on the median strip directly in front of our house. It can be a little depressing and morbid, but it certainly serves to teach the kids not to go near the road. I know that the memorials most definitely make most motorists slow down and think each time they see them, but with the amount on the sides of the roads these days it can sometimes feel like you are living in a cemetary. Not that I am against the idea of them, its just sad that there is so many.
 
I think there are about 25 on the Albany Highway between Mt Barker and Albany.

Straight stretch of road that just begs to be sped on.

Story my wife's Aunt told me...An Albany Family had two daughters killed on the way to Mt Barker on a Friday Night and didn't hear about it until after their third daughter was struck by a hockey ball and killed on the Saturday Morning.
 

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