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Changes to the law on lorry design are well overdue and I welcome the growing consensus that mirrors and sensors need to be fitted as standard.
Geffen said the mayor should instead focus on improving cyclists' safety on London's roads and working with the government to improve lorry design.
A British Liberal Democrat campaigner on the issue, Phil Bennion MEP, called the vote a "victory for all the campaigners in the UK who have worked so hard to bring about these life-saving changes to lorry design".
The Safer Urban Lorry design features a lower seating position for drivers - 60cm lower than conventional lorries - and a larger windscreen and side windows, to improve the view of their surroundings.
Charlie Lloyd, from London Cycling Campaign, who is a former lorry driver, said: "Our Safer Urban Lorry design is a challenge to the construction industry to use vehicles that help reduce the terrible number of people on bikes and on foot who are killed by lorries.
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The Business Secretary said the signs, which were paraded through six London boroughs on the back of a lorry, were designed to stoke unnecessary fears about immigration.
Indeed, smaller versions might fit on a large lorry.Dr McGuire's design is, however, just that a design.
The new design of lorry would involve more such changes in industry practice, said Cavenett.
Truck, also called lorry, any motor vehicle designed to carry freight or goods or to perform special services such as fire fighting.
Campaigners are urging construction firms to adopt a new design for lorries which they say could cut the number of cycling deaths on London roads.
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