This morning's commute and other commuting stories

As soon as a pedestrian leaves the footway and enters the carriageway they have right of way, but in the junction in question there is no official crossing so right of way would stay with the cyclists until the pedestrian stepped into the road. Who would then decide whether the pedestrian made an unsafe move into the carriageway? I'd always be inclined to slow up to allow a pedestrian to cross on that junction, as I always do when riding or driving, but clearly not many others would.

Cheers all. The difficulty with that junction is that slowing to allow a pedestrian to cross the flow of cyclists isn't always safe; there's invariably some super aggy alpha commuters coming along there who are happy to overtake at the point of the barriers by going through different gaps, plus a couple of cars that have just gotten out of the Drayton Park traffic jam and want to let loose... and as NH says, it's not always clear what a pedestrian's intention is because there's no clear crossing.

What I should have said was that I'm in no position to speak 'as a cyclist' per se...