Push for new controls on lorries after report reveals cyclists feel increasingly unsafe

A ‘ghost bike’. Two thirds of cyclists feel less safe now than they did six months ago, the London Assembly has said. Photograph: Eleonore de Bonneval

New controls on lorries could be implemented in a bid to make roads safer for cyclists.

London Councils, a cross-party lobby group chaired by Hackney’s mayor Jules Pipe, has been consulting hauliers and other interested parties on proposals to require heavy goods vehicles to fit additional close proximity mirrors.

The consultation ended earlier this year.

Cyclist casualty rates have risen every year since 2006 and the London Assembly’s Transport Committee last month revealed that more than two thirds of London cyclists feel less safe now than they did six months ago.