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@NurseHolliday
Hmm the cycle lane give way signs are there to give way to road users, not peds - obviously everyone should give way to peds crossing the road sensibly. It's not an official pedestrian crossing, as a pedestrian, it's similar to when you're walking along a pavement and there's a side road. You have to cross it so you wait until there's no traffic to cross it, you don't just walk out in front of an approaching car, or a car that's indicating to turn into the side road.
The problem I guess is that it's a very quiet street with great line of sight so cyclists don't have to slow down to give way to other road users already on the road so I assume there was a situation of a steady stream of cyclists. No road users is legally required to give way to a ped there, unless they have already begun crossing the road.
You'd hope at least one cyclist would be courteous enough to give way to a pedestrian without them having to step out on to the road, but in that situation, it looks like that's what they would have to do.