• THERE was a proud announcement in the general election issue of the Camden Magazine, of the installation of 21 of the metal armadillos (bike hangars) with the promise of 30 more.

In the conservation area that I live in there is little support for these experiments. We have two, located dangerously on double yellow lines at the ends of one road.

If it was not safe to park a car with crumple zones, bumpers and reflective surfaces, in these positions, who thought that a sharp-edged, unlit, low metal, hangar would do anything other than make our roads more dangerous? The logic of these hangars escapes me.

No one will trust an expensive cycle to their care and no one will bother to invest in bespoke accommodation for a cheap bike.

When the take-up for these has proven as slack as it seems to have been in Hackney, will they all be removed along with those who voted for them?

An announcement of their demise in the final post-local-election issue of the magazine next year would be welcomed by many.

STEVE ADAMS
Rona Road, NW3