Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Yup, another useful little scheme. If they haven't already done so, the area behind Stoke Newington Town Hall should be improved as part of the same scheme. (I haven't taken a look at it yet.)

I'm pretty sure Edward's Lane would have been made one-way when there would have been a major rat-run along Edward's Lane and Queen Elizabeth's Walk (which was subsequently filtered, removing the 'need' for one-way operation, which was an anachronism).

Just to follow up this theme, of disobey-til-make-it-legal (reminds me of fake it til you make it, which is what I say to all my lovers)...

er where was I

Oh yeah, Rivington Street, near the Old Hipster Triangle. Used to be various one-ways, reversing all the way along it, and was a useful ped & cycle route if going east<>west around there avoiding Old and Great Eastern Streets. Now has cycle contra-lanes all the way along it. I used to contravene all the one ways systematically in the hope this would happen. Feel like it was worth breaking the rules.

I have another one now, east from Waterloo towards Hatfields. Still on dodgy ground legally. Reminds me of a brief conversation I had with John Snow outside ITN once about how rolling on a certain tiny bit of footway joing two legal routes had wound a courier friend in court against a particularly spiteful copper. Snow was rolling on the footway at the time, to park at stands, and he said 'Well, until they make proper provision, I will continue to do so!!'.

The bloke off the news said it was OK, so ...