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Nice one, I'm going to overhaul my route completely after this mornings horrendous and genuinely quite scary commute in; featuring two minor rider down incidents and solid angry traffic all the way.
It's been getting worse and worse but today was mental. I'm going to turn this:
New Cross Rd > Queens Road Peckham/Peckham Rd > Camberwell New Rd > Kennington Rd > Black Prince Rd > Lambeth Bridge > Westminster Sq > Whitehall/Trafalgar Sq > Pall Mall
Into this:
New Cross Rd > Old Kent Rd/New Kent Rd > Elephant & Castle > Waterloo Rd/Bridge > The Strand/Trafalgar Sq> Pall Mall
I did it on the way home just now, so much better! The roads just seem to be more open and faster during rush hour compared to my usual route, I could push a nice pace without feeling like I'm going to get killed.
New Kent Rd flyover is always fun to.
Thumbs up!
/CSB
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Changed my route in this morning to not go through Hyde Park as since they've redesigned the speakers corner bit to be gravel instead of tarmac I've had a few punctures. They have also changed the exit from the bike path slightly so now it's actually really hard to exit without crashing into oncoming cyclists or having cyclists in your lane crash into you. New route is less gravelly and less crashy, so thumbs up.