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Hundreds of cyclists brought the busy Bank junction to a standstill this morning with a protest over the death of a young woman who was struck by a lorry on Monday.

The notorious junction outside the Bank of England, where cyclist Ying Tao, 26, died during the morning rush hour, was swamped with bikes from 8.30am.

Protesters pulled up in the middle of the junction and dismounted to observe a period of silence and hear an address from the organisers.

One cyclist raised a placard reading "Another death, another protest".

The recently-married Oxford graduate was the eighth cyclist to die in the capital this year, and the seventh after a collision with a lorry.

"Another death, another protest" @london_cycling stopping traffic at Bank following another death here on Monday. pic.twitter.com/XdZQg4p9ue — Lambeth Green Party (@Lambethgp) June 24, 2015

We've turned out en masse at Bank to call for #space4cycling in the wake of two tragic cycling deaths. Join us! pic.twitter.com/VqFigKivQ4 — LdnCyclingCampaign (@london_cycling) June 24, 2015

Road safety campaigner Caroline Russell, a Green Party councillor in Islington, told the Standard: "It was very poignant and very moving seeing people standing in the middle of that junction, which is normally filled with traffic barging its way through.

"Having that moment of peace was just very, very moving. It brings it home to you that it could be so different."

She added: "People are just fed up with sharing roads with these massive lorries thundering through our streets. The reason so many people turned up to fill the junction was to say 'enough is enough'."

Ms Tao had been riding to her job as a management consultant at PwC when she was hit at about 9am. She died from head injuries some 40 minutes later.

Witnesses said about 400 people joined the demonstration, many of them stopping during their morning commute.

The protest was called by the London Cycling Campaign, which said on its website: "We will be gathering to remember the victim and highlight the need for safe space for cycling; not just at this location, but across London.

"More must be done to create high quality space for cycling across London, to enable people of all ages and abilities to ride safely in our city. This includes making lorries safer."

Bank Junction occupied by cyclists against yet another death. The Mayor and the London ass… http://t.co/jhgtVcfF4B pic.twitter.com/C5PQ0RODZr — Jake (@jakehyslop) June 24, 2015

Great turnout at Bank for #space4cycling protest. Minute silence for 8 dead this year. pic.twitter.com/cPPozSucGR — Will Yong (@will_yong) June 24, 2015

Mechanic Clifton James, 60, was also remembered at the protest after he died in the early hours of Sunday in north-west London.

He was cycling home through a business park from his garage in Harrow when he was hit by a car and suffered serious head injuries.

Protesters first gathered at two locations this morning - Finsbury Circus and London Bridge - at 8am before cycling to the spot.

The brief protest came to an end shortly before 9am this morning.