Following on from Charlotte's comment about this quote...
Before then, there is also the danger from White Van Man. “Everyone says the track is so dangerous, but my biggest risk is being knocked off my road bike because someone is too impatient to wait 20 seconds and overtakes me on a bend. I want to go out with a big neon sign saying, ‘Do you know how important my legs are!’ There are a lot of people out there who hate cyclists.”
As grim as it sounds it seems to me that until a really high profile cyclist, by which I mean someone known to to the general public and not someone who is only well known in cycling circles (like Zak Carr or Simon Doughty), is seriously hurt in an RTA that not a lot is going to improve for us mortals. Even then I wouldn't be optimistic.
Please don't run away with the idea that I actually want something like this to happen, I just have a morbid turn of mind.
I wonder what it would/will take to improve things for cyclists?