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I had an interesting encounter with a ped this morning, at the junction of Horsell and Ronald Rd behind Holloway rd. I was walking with my girlfriend to H&I station, and pushing my bike so that when she got on a train I'd cycle off to work, and a flustered woman stopped me and asked me, as a cyclist, to explain who has right of way at the junction.
Pic of the junction here: http://imgur.com/XQHaEpQ
She was saying that she was walking from C to B to A, and cyclists travelling D to E and vice versa weren't giving her right of way. I realised I wasn't actually sure; since the cyclists are crossing an end-of-a-road line, they're supposed to give way to cars going along either of the roads, sure, but what about peds crossing? And complicating it, should cyclists take into account the safety of stopping suddenly for a ped when there's often a lot of bike and car traffic coming fast behind them?