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@Sano
One of the problems with saying that London should have more cycle lanes is that there's simply no room. This city is well over a thousand years old and was built when the biggest traffic on it was the size of a wagon and cart. It's in the last 100 years that motorised traffic has become the norm, and trying to fit articulated lorries into a space that was designed for horses means that there's going to be problems.
The idea to ban HGV's in the city is a good one.
People do undertake, but let's not forget that the cycle lanes at traffic lights encourage this behaviour. While it might be naiive, if a new cyclist sees that it's acceptable to undertake where traffic is controlled, then it's understandable that they might believe it's also acceptable to do so on the open road.
I also don't believe that cyclists are 'more often than not' the ones in the wrong. The number of times, every day, that people turn left without indicating, or even looking, is staggering.
Any way you look at it, one death is too many.