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Although taking trucks out of central London seems like a good idea, it's not really solving the problem. There have been cyclist killed in the outter boroughs, and others killed outside of rush hour. In fact isn't rush hour safer due to the number of cyclists on the road at that time?
So if you restrict the times truck are allowed in, won't it just make it more dangerous to cycle in the city at those times the trucks are allowed in, as the same amount of journeys will still be made but in a shorter time frame? Or a lot of the loads are switched to smaller vehicles, but using far more journeys, e.i 1 truck = 5 vans (i'm guessing here), although i've no idea if this would be safer or not.