The London Cycling Campaign has an interesting suggestion: make lorries safer for other road users.
The London Cycling Campaign has published pictures and video of its new Safer Urban Lorry design, and is calling on the construction industry to adopt similar vehicle designs to reduce the shocking number of lorry-cyclist fatalities.
This is a great idea but I think we're missing something. The question shouldn't be "when can we have safer lorries" but "why don't the police stop obviously dangerous vehicles from being driven through our city".
If you were to drive a car with heavily tinted windows through London you would, sooner or later, be stopped on the not unreasonable grounds that you couldn't see enough of your surroundings to navigate safely through them. What is special about lorries that they should be able to drive around without taking a similar amount of care?