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Given the circumstances, this can sound patronising, but hearing so often about these tragic collisions, I'd like to point out, that your local council can provide some form of cycling training and marshaling for all of you, who are not very confident on the road or simply don't know the highway code at all.
We all participate - either cycling, driving, riding motorbikes or simply walking - in the same London traffic. If a simple, often free course can save someone's life, then go for it!
Of course it will not get rid off any arrogant and ignorant bullies, but perhaps make you more aware on the road.
As a cyclist I know there are some road users who treat us like a nuisance and users of some kind of "lesser" vehicles ("can't afford a car", but as a driver I'd like to point out, that you should always take care while riding past a car on a narrow busy road, becasue I often seen a situations when a driver swerved to the left to avoid a maniac on a moped/motorbike in the middle of the road only to cut into a cyclist on the left (there's no way one can look at both side mirrors at the same time).
As for the lorry drivers - chill the fuck out! You will get there eventually - don't take somebody's life on the way :-/