Recent HGV/cyclist accidents

I am not saying that we should allow HGV drivers to abdicate responsibility for their actions- nothing could be further from the truth, but we would be guilty of living in a utopian dream if we thought that we can educate all drivers at once, therefore managing the problem is a necessity surely?

No. All that you need is political will and it can happen almost immediately.

'Managing' the problem is what has got us into the present mess in the first place, BTW. Read the literature on it, particularly Robert Davis' 'Death on the Streets' or 'Murder Most Foul', the re-printed classic by JS Dean, available from RoadPeace, and you'll understand. There's a good summary and ordering information on this page:

http://www.roadpeace.org/index.asp?PageID=299