Angered London Cyclists Stage A 'Die-In' Outside TFL HQ In Protest At Recent Road Deaths!

OVER 1,000 cyclists have strewn themselves across a central London road in protest at the capital's dangerous traffic conditions.

DIE-IN: Over 1,000 cyclists lay down outside Transport for London HQ after six cyclists died on London's roads in November [PA]

Branded a "die-in", protesters blocked roads outside the Transport for London (TFL) headquarters in Southwark after six cyclists died on the capital's roads in November.

The plan was inspired by riders in Holland who used similar tactics to pressure authorities into making the transport infrastructure safer.

"We Londoners are going to join the Dutch, and follow them until we get our roads safe," said one of the event's organisers Donnachadh McCarthy.

DEATHS: The protesters want £600m invested into making London's roads safer for cyclists [PA]

The 54-year-old added: "We are here because Londoners are fed up of being killed. We need to have modern, European, safe cycling network.

"We believe it's a human right for children and pensioners to cycle around our city safely, and at the moment they can't."

The protesters are calling for £600 million a year to be spent on safer cycling in London.

There has been a swell of anger among cyclists in recent weeks after it emerged that six people were killed while riding in the space of two weeks earlier this month.

FULL-ON ANGER: One cyclist took his protest to the next level [ALAMY]

MASS: TFL are planning to introduce more segregated roads in the next decade [ALAMY]

Brian Holt, 62; Francis Golding, 69, Roger William De Klerk, 43, Venera Minakhmetova, 24, a 21-year-old man from St John's Wood and a man believed to be in his 60s all died between November 5 and 18.

TFL managing director Leon Daniels said one of the group's key demands, new segregated cycle routes, will be brought in within 10 years.

He said: "We are all shaken by the recent spate of deaths on the roads, and our sympathies are with all the friends and families of those affected.

"The protestors are rightly demanding safety should be at the top of our priorities. It is."