From the cab - a HGV drivers view

Just throwing something out there, flame me if you will, but 1 possible solution would be to extend bus lanes to make them continuous and redesign all junctions to give priority to buses. Make public transport half the cost it is now. Buses would be fast and convenient, and we would have wide, continuous lanes with priority at junctions. Sure, we'd have to share them with buses like we do already, but i find that the bus lanes are generally a fairly safe place to be.

Haven't seen any stats on collisions in bike lanes, but anecdotally, this would seem to make sense.

Giving the bus absolute priority over everything was something the TfL, under Ken, was very keen to do. Unfortunately, TfL do not have the last word on trunk roads. National government does, and they weren't quite so keen to make the bus king.