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I suspect very few cyclists are ignorant of the rules of the road. They just choose to ignore them. Education, licencing, etc won't make a lot of difference where there is a common place blasé attitude and a general feeling that if incorrect behaviour is OK for one, then it's OK for another.

Some things should be common sense such as no headphones (you might still hear stuff, but not as clearly, but then in a car with windows wound up and radio on you aren't hearing others around you so is it a part of the issue). Lights, hi vis, etc all help, but the real issue needs to be defensive riding, not the gung ho attitude frequently seen.

And as for banning heavy vehicles, what is the proportion of incidents that have occurred peak times to off peak. A couple of the recent deaths have involved buses. Are we going to ban them too?

The ideal solution is segregation. If one could demolish our cities and start from scratch, that might be achievable. Of course we can't do that and so everyone has to fit into our road network that goes back to medieval times. Inevitably that creates conflict.

Every road user has to take their share of responsibility, be that driver, rider or pedestrian.