Lots of guard railings have been removed with most to follow. Scrap metal merchant bonanza. it transpired that guard railings just corralled pedestrians and didn’t make them any safer or other road users – sometimes trapping cyclists and pedestrians into dangerous and even occasionally deadly situations.

So great these guard railing are going. But they were incredibly useful for parking bikes and locking them up.

What to do?

Well they’re not a new idea but cycleloops seem the obvious alternative. Just need to persuade Southwark to roll them out…perhaps not pink ones.