The London Paper today has a full-page feature entitled: Cyclists vs Lorries: The Deadly Debate. It cites the deaths of four cyclists by lorries this week alone (Lisa Pontecorvo, Nick Wright, Graham Thwaites and Wan-Chen McGuiness), and in order to attempt ‘to understand the difficulties facing each side’, it had a cyclist get behind the wheel of an HGV (aka LGV aka lorry aka truck), and an HGV driver get on a bike.

I’m really hoping the cyclist didn’t actually get to drive the HGV (and merely sat at the wheel), since the idea of that freaks me out for all manner of reasons (mainly because I think it a skill not to be taken up lightly and secondly because it’s an unfair comparison), and there are several points of irritation (I’m always irritated by things - it’s the academic in me), but overall I think the attention the article is bringing to the issue is important at least.
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