Boris Johnson must help to protect cyclists by redesigning London’s “confusing” cycle superhighways, according to a coroner who investigated two deaths in the capital.

The safety of Britain’s most advanced cycle network has been criticised in a Prevention of Future Deaths report [read in full above] submitted to the Mayor of London by the coroner Mary Hassell. She found that cyclists are lulled into a false sense of security on superhighway lanes, which often appear with no white lines to protect users from motor traffic.

If motorists are allowed to drive over the blue lanes in London, this might encourage them to ignore lanes elsewhere, putting cyclists everywhere in “greater danger”, Ms Hassell warned.

Last week the coroner investigated the deaths of Brian Dorling, 58,