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I doubt very much whether I could offer any help at all so I won't attend the meeting, but I have some suggestions, if this is the right place, as to what you might wish to achieve.
Complete ban on lorries in central London during congestion charge hours - using the same cameras to fine owners a massive fine - such as £1000 per infringement. Sometimes it's useful to demand something extreme, knowing you might not get it, but changing the dynamic of the debate so that it is easier to get something you do want.
Get TFL and all councils to rip out the railings between pavement and road so that cyclists have an escape route.
Make compulsory retro-fitment of strong plastic side-skirts and front aprons to make it impossible for a cyclist to be dragged under a lorry. Give them the same ground clearance as buses. I suspect if you ask for option 1 you may achieve this option as a compromise and the lorry lobby will think they got away lightly.
Removal of feeder cycle lanes into cycle boxes. actually I think the cycle boxes should also be removed (keeping the car stop-line as far back as if there was a box there) and cyclists allowed to stop ahead of the white line, or even legally jump the lights.
automatic presumption of guilt for a motor vehicle driver that hits a cyclist. This would ensure all cases of sufficient severity got to court and killer drivers did go to jail. There is already automatic presumption of guilt in speeding offences, so it's got a precedent in motoring law. If you also allowed cyclists to jump red lights as in suggestion 4 I think you'd have to flip it in this circumstance so the cyclist was automatically at fault though.