Also... Lancaster Gate is designed to be a death trap at the Northern point of that junction.
The way people drive around that isn't going to be substantially changed by the new design, and the flow of cyclists hasn't been designed to work with how the traffic moves around that junction.
I've gone through that junction in excess of a couple of thousand times in years of commuting, with that design I would choose to stay in the flow of traffic and not use the segregated lane that then has to intersect traffic at a blind spot.
Also... Lancaster Gate is designed to be a death trap at the Northern point of that junction.
The way people drive around that isn't going to be substantially changed by the new design, and the flow of cyclists hasn't been designed to work with how the traffic moves around that junction.
I've gone through that junction in excess of a couple of thousand times in years of commuting, with that design I would choose to stay in the flow of traffic and not use the segregated lane that then has to intersect traffic at a blind spot.