Railings removed

From the article:

There's very clear evidence based reasons to believe that vehicles will indeed mount the pavement.

If vehicles mount the pavement when railings aren't there, then we should be thinking... what's the escape route for a cyclist? My point about the curb is the turning left will just lay you down on the pavement, in the way of the vehicle (as it mounts the curb).

Rubbish...

No Railings = escape route onto the curb, and onto the footpath if necessary, most likely escaping injury, or suffering far less severe injuries.
You can't seriously tell me that any half decent cyclist wouldn't have the presence of mind in this situation to at least pull the front wheel up and mount the curb as opposed to letting themselves get "laid down on the pavement".....seriously.

Railings = crushed squashed/injured to fuck etc etc no matter what.