2009-08-10 - Rider Down, Southwark Bridge, North side

Fingers crossed for a full recovery. Its hard to say that motor should take more blame as I do see alot of cyclists pulling stupid moves as well. It would be nice to see less motor vehicles in London, but that is not going to happen realistically as its not only vital to keep things moving, but the attitude of the some motorists will never change.

The way to change it is through financial strain, personal guilt and social un-acceptability; as they did with smoking.
Convince the smoker it will kill him, convince everyone how other people smoking will kill them and at the same time increase the cost of fags so it's financial undesirable.

Now the Gvt only did this when the maths showed them curing smoking related illness cost more than the tax they made on selling fags..

So what are the chances of them penalising drivers for endangering cyclists???

I'd say better training for all parties and a few more preventative methods such as more bike lanes, etc. would help.

Training is the key but i have not heard is as an option on the news... where are all the training schools??? maybe it's time for a LFGSS cycle school!