'Cause it's the cyclists that need educating...

Not antagonistic but maybe time to take responsibility for your self. Have seen so many people hugging the inside,riding on the inside of left turning vehicles no sense of what going on around them and its not their fault? Lets blame everyone else and not take responsibility.

With education (training) they can see the error of there ways and make the cycling more enjoyable.

i am in agreement with this. as cyclist we can blame tfl (or our local body) for crap cycle lanes, truck drivers for crushing people, car drivers for turning left in front of us etc etc. but while ii accept that there is a lot of poor driving around, there is a huge amount of poor cycling going on, and it would take just a little thought on the part of the cyclist to figure that some of their actions are hazardous/misrepresenting their intentions. loads of cyclists drive so they should have a working knowledge of how these things work, and the rest, well they walk, they can look, they arent devoid of the power of thought. how many times do you curse almost being side swiped by a left turning van as you leave a traffic light before you realise that you can do something about it?? sure there are a lot of things that you may not be able to figure out (cycle training taught me loads) but it shouldnt take many near misses for a person to think "ah ok this has happened before, i'll wait till the van has turned before going by, or maybe i'll pass on the outside, or maybe i'll get in front of him while the light is still red so he knows im here"...

it winds me up that cyclists generally have a holier than though attitude toward other road users and yet so easily give up their responsibility of safety to tfl or drivers or whoever by riding like they are invisible or got a force field around them or something... there are shit cyclist just as there are shit motorists.

my feeling is that cyclists do need educating. and so do drivers of big vehicles with poor visibility, in fact everyone needs educating, but people sure as hell should learn from experience and put themselves in safe places on the road where they can be seen and respected or treated as traffic, cyclist or ped or driver or scooterer...