A bicycle advocacy group boss has slammed Brisbane City Council as "negligent" after failing for nearly a decade to address cyclist safety on a major feeder route for students commuting to the University of Queensland.

Cyclist numbers along Annerley Road and Stanley Street in Brisbane's south increased dramatically after the opening of the Eleanor Schonell green bridge connecting the city's southside with the university's St Lucia campus in 2006.

But Bicycle Queensland chief executive Ben Wilson said council had only this year taken steps to address long-standing safety issues, causing many student cyclists to continue risking their lives riding unprotected in traffic.

One of the students was Rebekka Meyer, a young Danish student who, on her morning commute on September 11, 2014, was hit and killed by a truck at the intersection of Stanley Street and Annerley Road.