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  • This isn't a criticism of you personally but do you live your life expecting everyone else to abide by the rules? Or do you have some sort of common sense that dictates that there are law breakers?

    You were talking about lorries exceeding speed limit.
    No, I don't anticipate that every person abide by every law.
    Just the same, if the laws are there, one would hope that most people would make that effort.

    People need to stop thinking that there is some sort of Utopian Dreamworld to be made out of London. This place is unique. The demand for cheap accommodation is ridiculous, as long as there is a demand, construction will continue and this means construction traffic. You can fight against it all you want but how does that help in the short term?

    Nobody's arguing against construction?!

    Cyclists need to be educated. FAST! Shops should be giving out a cyclists highway code written by real London cyclists not by some pompous idiots who write the car's highway code. It should be given with EVERY new bike, to EVERYONE who pops into a shop. Hell posted to every person in Greater London.

    LCC, stand on the side of the road, educate people! People say, "I see riders who have no idea of how to cycle undertaking lorries and buses and I just want to shout at them." SO shout at them. Let them know if they're idiots.

    I agree that it makes sense to educate each and every road user.
    As cyclists we are offered little physical protection, and so it makes every bit of sense to conduct ourselves with that in mind.
    We do need to be aware and educated.
    However, this alone is not enough, as we cannot always anticipate what another road-user will do.

    The more we fight against other road users the bigger the backlash will be! Why not educate ourselves?

    This isn't fighting 'against' other road users.
    This is about making the roads safer for all road users by compromising with a small portion of road users-- HGVs-- about the ways in which the roads are shared.

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