2009-04-09 - Rider Down/Fatality, Goswell Rd and Clerkenwell/Old St

This is horribly sad.
My thoughts are with her and her kin.

I agree with the below:

That bit of road is being dug up, so it's completely screwed.
Terrible news.** It's about time we seriously started talking about banning HGVs from central london between 7am and 7pm**

Petition? The evidence is now overwhelming that they are a total nightmare, and we'll just get more and more cyclists on the roads as the weather gets better and cycling is promoted further - and then Crossrail starts with an anticipated 200 HGVs a day removing soil through central London. Blah blah...

Awful, awful, awful... :(
Something's gotta give, this crap's happening way too often... Be really careful out there people...

definately x1000000

and

I know that many of these scenarios include unpredicatable, fast moving, metal objects - but forewarned is forearmed. And I'm up for forewarning before these threads become a daily ocurrence.

The cycling 'school' is a great idea, but it's still just not enough.
London traffic is brutal, and often, unnecessarily so.