London cycling deaths: we need action, not talk

Question 1

            a)False. A fairly quiet junction in Spitalfields was filled with uniformed police, paramedics, cars, and ambulances attending to someone in the road.

            b) True. She escaped with only a broken collarbone.  

            c) False. London’s mayor went on LBC to talk about the deaths and raised the issue of irresponsible cyclists.

            d) False. There seems to be an active policy of stopping and fining red light jumping cyclists,

Question 2

a)       Its buses drive too fast/ heavy lorries share same roads as cyclists at peak hour times/ cycle lanes disappear when the direction of the road changes/ resulting in traffic movig into the lanes/ car parking space takes over the lanes/ major roads with up to 3 lanes are unprotected.

b)        The reader cycles with extreme caution and the idea that any road user could kill him/ he tries to focus on what he is doing and to imagine possible dangerous situations like dangerous moves for example people opening doors without looking/ a motorist trying to scare him/ keeping a good space between his bike and the vehicle/ he realises that he cannot control all road situations.

Question 3

a)       witness                                d) chat

b)       swift                                     e) reckless

c)       unexpected

Question 4

a. If you cycle in London, you'll know what my first thought was.

    If you cycled in London, you would know what his first thought had been.

b. Police were herding people away from the scene.

    People were being herded away from the scene.

c. He said, “When people make decisions on the road that are risky, they can get killed.”

    He said that when people made decisions on the road that were risky, they could get killed.