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Just look at the facts! These things work:-
Testing in Switzerland

you can't argue with that.

Interesting is picking an area and viewing just incidents involving bicycles (Bike) and HGVs (Goods Vehicles).

A lot of them are the same incident, indicating the high correlation between the two.
That is really useful, every other map only shows the type of victim, so they feed the myth that cycling and walking are dangerous.
When you look at the HGV related fatalites in London, virtually all the victims are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, maybe it is the trucks that are dangerous.

Charlie lcc is amazing, so much patience and very clear in his explanations.
Thanks DJ, I think a couple of glasses of wine helped me do a bit on radio5 live at 11.30 pm.

British cycling membership is subsidised with a truckload of government and SKY money in the hope that they will win us a bucketful of gold next year. I suspect the subsidy will dry up after that.

Both groups (and CTC) offer very similar 3rd party insurance and other deals. The legal advice is good from all the companies invovled. We work closely with the BC recommended lawyers on HGV campaigning.

If you are in London, LCC offers local campaigning by local people. Beards, fluoro and helmets are optional. With BC you only get choice over beards.

So so sad.

Her name was Ellie, she was my best mate's sister. We were with her a week ago today. She was an amazing girl.
Please pass on contact for RoadPeace help line: 08454500355 http://www.roadpeace.org/

Write to Boris: www.lfgss.com/thread75630.html

The Evening Standard described friday's victim as a "woman, known only as Lana"

RIP

The link for sending mail is here:
http://lcc.org.uk/pages/bow-roundabout

We are using safeBow@lcc.org.uk so we have a count and dossier of how many people write.
Absolutely personalize your message. That's what I did.

Update: by 10am more than 1000 people had already written to the Mayor. Well done!

Please take 20 seconds to tell the Mayor of London that cyclists need a safe Bow roundabout

Two cyclists have been killed by lorries at Bow roundabout in less than three weeks.
London Cycling Campaign is asking all cyclists to write to the Mayor, telling him that the roundabout needs to be re-designed. We have set up a link on our website.
http://lcc.org.uk/articles/please-take-20-seconds-to-tell-the-mayor-of-london-cyclists-need-a-safe-bow-roundabout

This is what I wrote:- to safeBow@lcc.org.uk
*Dear Mayor,
Please go to Bow roundabout, try to walk from where Brian died to where Lana died, take you executives and engineers with you then ask yourselves, "Do we really want to live in a city with streets as insanely hostile as this one".
I'm demanding you implement an urgent and effective redesign of this lethal junction, so no more families suffer the tragic losses of the last few weeks. *

Steve Norris for Mayor??? He was a tory car dealer, when he was a minister for Transport we took him for a ride around London. One of the results was the National Cycling Strategy 1996. It set a target to quadruple cycling by 2012. In London it has almost tripled.

^^^^ as ever, the rider down thread is not the place for slagging off TfL, or anyone else. I have posted my thoughts about casualty rates on the Cycle Safety Working Group thread:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread31959.html

One of the best things to come out of TfL's Cycle Safety Action Plan are the Cycle Safety Working Groups which were set up when everyone realised that the origninal draft plan missed most of the important issues. These groups have reps from London Cycling Campaign, Roadpeace, CTC, London Councils, FTA and the Police as well as TfL staff.

At this group we have put HGV safety at the top of the agenda resulting in the chance to revolutionise driver training and maybe ensure companies are brought to accout. Last week, just before the latest tragedy, we proposed that road infrastructure, especially at major junctions, be put at the top of the agenda for future meetings.

We also agreed a new sub-group to look at cycling and casualty statistics. TfL and the Mayor claim that the rate of casualties and fatalities is falling, as the number of cyclists has increased dramatically in recent years. A recent blog by Danny Williams
http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/11/cycle-casualties-in-london-increasing.html
challenged that view using Department for Transport data. My view is that the Transport for London data is far better than anything from DfT and I believe that the casualty rate is falling, but not nearly as much as it should. The main problem is that there is very poor information on how many people cycle, where they cycle and how far they go.

A working group concentrating on cycle casualty data should give us better information and encourage TfL to invest in collecting more data about cycle use in London.

Tom Edwards at BBC has examined the roundabout:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15708227
One of the comments is from Brian's wife [Petal]
I am the wife of Brian Dorling who was killed on 24th October at this awful junction. I and our 3 children are devastated by his needless death on what is an appalling layout. We went to watch the reconstruction of the collision and whilst I was watching the traffic in 20 minutes 3 more cyclists were nearly hit. I said to the police and traffic engineer at the time that someone else will die.

Petal,
this is so sad, all our sympathies are with you and your children.

We at London Cycling Campaign and other cycling groups have been sent a copy of a letter that a friend of Brian's has sent to the Mayor.
It concludes
"Please assure me, and those of us close to Brian, that cyclists will be warned they are entering a Danger Zone at this location and that alternative routes are provided and that suitable signage is erected.
I look forward to a positive response that may bring some recognition and comfort to his family and those others of us who are now without our friend."

The whole letter is on our site.

yep, same driver killed twice (at least) different lorry, different company, still can't see what's in front of him.

Thanks Mark for your blog report. I will write to the Manager of the concrete mixer company. Their lorries have killed two cyclists in the last few years.

^^ After Elizabeth Webb was killed at Mile End her father made a couple of videos highlighting the danger of large lorries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgzsxgrryEQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XARYZR5t6l4

Since then the mirror systems have been improved but the drivers don't always look.

Some further comment about Monday's death are here:
www.lcc.org.uk
and here:
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2011/10/death-of-cyclist.html

Also on BBC radio London in a few minutes.

Not again. Our thoughts are with this guy's family and friends.

I heard of this while in a meeting with Hackney Borough who are already rolling out training for all their HGV drivers, including on bike sessions. They are hoping to offer it to all transport operators in the borough and to make it a condition of planning applications that drivers delivering to sites should also get this level of training.

dbr Great idea. We at London Cycling Campaign would like the chance to talk to students about HGV safety. It is often hard to get to all the new students coming into London at this time of year.

Owww Digger, heal up quickly.

and thanks for sorting out the NHS while you were there. Do they do art restoration as part of the service?

Hey, getting back to the OP story. I do like the American guy's concern for cycle safety:
"Wear a helmet and get a light for your bicycle, or I'm going to turn you and your hip fixed-gear into a bloody mess of human entrails and aluminium framing."

ah that's where I've seen them. they removed the roundabout and made a normal junction. not sure where they moved this trio to.

These fun-lovin' go-getters used to be in the middle of a roundabout. This is how they appear on streetview.
Local art critic, O Schick, asked the council to remove the sculpture and roundabout. So the council took out the roundabout but forgot to trash the sculpture.

If the hole is big and has been there a while you may not have to prove that it has already been reported. Where is it, exactly? Maybe other forumgers have seen it, hit it. If you were on the ring road or north of it on A1 then it is a Transprort for London Road, otherwise it is Islingotn Council's.

Get a solicitor. There are quite few who specialise in cycle crashes, we work with Levenes. A solicitor will make sure you claim for everything possible, including time off work, alternate travel and their legal fees.

Get photos, of the pothole, of your injuries, of the bike etc.

Don't punch the old lady on the Boris bike, especially not with your right hand.
Next time expect people on Boris bikes to do stupid things, all the time.

Good to hear the "not life threatening" tag but it still sounds nasty. Did it happen on the on the bit where the cycling superhighway sort of disappears around the bus stop after Cavendish rd?

^^^^^ +1
It is frightening that these disasters affect so many other people.

that sort of breakage should never happen in a one year old bike, or even a five year old bike. Has the bike been in crash already? Who was the last person to tighten up the handlebar clamp? If the bike hasn't been crashed before or interfered with then the bike shop should replace the handle bars and fix any other damage, if they want to send the bars away to the manufacturers that is their problem. Their duty to you is to sell a bike that is fit for purpose, and replace the faulty one immediately.
What shop was it?
If they give you grief, let us know.