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I find the idea intriguing and would definitely be down for a spin but it would have to be held on a safeish course with long, un-signalled stretches of the type you might find in Atlanta or somewheresville North America.
I think it is morally disingenuous to say that the organisers wouldn't bare some responsibility for rider/pedestrian injury/accidents or death holding this event in central London which has got to be the most heavily policed and traffic-controlled city in all of Europe.
Having a caveat just doesn't wash in my book.
Plus it will hardly be fair on the people who do obey the road-rules.
The people (in the main) who participate in alleycats are professional cyclists who are mature enough in experience to take the kinds of risks associated with live point-to-point racing which usual lasts no more than an hour or so. I don't believe that your average cyclist is.