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A notorious junction where two cyclists have died in HGV collisions is not due safety improvements for five years, Sadiq Khan has admitted.

The Mayor said an upgrade of the A102/A206 interchange, known as the “crossing of death”, was not scheduled to begin until “late 2021” and would not be completed until “late 2023”.

Edgaras Cepuras, 37, died at the junction in May. Adrianna Skrzypiec, 31, was killed by a hit-and-run lorry at the same location in 2009.

Mr Khan also admitted that the roundabouts at Lambeth Bridge are not due to be upgraded until November 2021, despite public consultation being carried out more than a year ago.

Campaigners are also furious at the lack of progress at Holborn gyratory, where four cyclists, including the Queen’s homoeopathist Dr Peter Fisher, have died in five years.

Caroline Pidgeon, a Lib Dem member of the London Assembly, asked what progress Mr Khan had made on 33 “better junctions” schemes.

Six schemes were completed by Mr Johnson and six more by Mr Khan. Two others in Stratford and Highbury Corner are under construction.

Ten cyclists have died in London this year, and 29 since Mr Khan became mayor. The most recent fatality, an unnamed 82-year-old grandfather who died last Saturday in Deptford, is one of four cyclists killed near where the delayed CS4 cycle superhighway was meant to create a safe route to Greenwich and Woolwich.

Mr Khan replaced the Better Junctions scheme with a “Safer Junctions” programme focusing on 73 locations. He said work was complete on 24 of these.

Mr Khan said TfL was working with Camden council to improve safety at Holborn but “it is in Camden’s hands”.

Penny Rees, TfL’s head of network sponsorship, said transforming the most dangerous junctions was key to the “Vision Zero” target of eliminating road death or serious injury by 2041. She said: “We will be relentless in delivering junction improvements across London to consign death and serious injury to the past.”