I’m up for good quality cycle training, but frankly, “Exchanging Places” is not going to do any significant good: You have a bout a million occasional cyclists in London, half a million fairly frequent, and about quarter of a million on a given day. Getting through to them to change their behaviour is very difficult, and a lot of manoeuvres have to be made where the cyclist cannot avoid an HGV coming up from behind and/or coming along and overtaking and swinging to the left. Also, even experienced vehicular cyclists like myself who are fully aware of the issue make mistakes near lorries – we don’t deserve to die because of this.
After all, motorists have the vehicle and highway environment designed for their carelessness – why can’t cyclists and pedestrians?
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Jenny Jones: Could you confirm the number of HGVs stopped by police in London for each year since 2000, the proportion that were found to be driving illegally, any breakdown of offences and the proportion that were stopped by specialist traffic police?
Answer from the Mayor: The MPS did not, until 2008, keep a record of the number of HGVs that were stopped. In 2008/09 3,000 vehicles were stopped (all types including lightweight vans). Of these 1329 were ‘trucks’ over 7.5 tonnes [note: vehicles over 7.5 tonnes are defined as HGVs]. Proportion found to be driving illegally: Offences were found in an average 80% of these vehicles.