This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I liked the spiral bike bridge thing that popped up a while back, is it dead?

Are there any plans to sort out tower hamlets? Or the main roads around Charlton, which seem to all be horrible dual carriage ways with a universally ignored 30mph speed limit?

Tower Hamlets is unlikely to see a radical new approach to its traffic management anytime soon, I'm afraid.

I'm not very well-informed about the London Borough of Greenwich, but there's an LCC mailing list you could try.

http://lcc.org.uk/boroughs/greenwich

I liked the spiral bike bridge thing that popped up a while back, is it dead?

Do you mean the Rotherhithe-to-Isle-of-Dogs bridge that was part of Sustrans' GOAL2012 proposals?

They still seem to be pursuing it, the latest I can see is here:

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/talks-underway-new-thames-cycle-bridge

http://www.se16.com/2579-brunel-bridge-rotherhithe-to-canary-wharf-crossing-plans-to-be-revived-by-sustrans

It should have been funded by the Olympics and would be a good project. Not very close to the alignment of your commute, of course.

They did a good feasibility study back then.

Edit: Either they or someone else has put up a web-site:

http://brunelbridge.london/

Not riding to work in London, but instead decided to ride St Kilda to Sorrento. 12 out of 10 !!!

Have you considered buying a boat?

Thank you so much for your advice @Oliver Schick , I agree RE canal but was hoping for a different journey to usual. @PeteC has just shared a route which is pretty much word for word of what you've written. Inc the Thames Path bit which will b luvleh.

Thank you very much to you both, I am looking forward to a better ride tomorrow!

You're welcome, hope you find all the turns!

What's the speed limit down the lea? i know pedalos are fixed gear but do they come in deep crabon?

Bus drives a little angry this morning, maybe due to them not going on strike tomorrow. Two particular dicks, one sounding the horn while we were sat at the red light with a load of traffic in front. The other trying to take me out as I was in primary making a right turn, no other traffic could have easily moved to the left.

Still better than the train, 7.5/10

I was going to shout at a bloke for consistently RLJing for a few miles, then his rear mudguard exploded all over the road so I'm glad I didn't.

8/10, would dispassionately observe again.

Attempted murder I suppose you can call it when someone swings a one ton moving object towards you on purpose? Missing you by about a foot.
Anyway that's what happened to me this morning. I'm amazing how psychotic some people are and coming from a woman I was flabbergasted.

Completely event free.... or maybe I was oblivious.
Still not got my layering right.

5/10 - would ride again

i rode a bicycle to work this morning.

i shall ride one home tonight.

That's really dangerous you know

Report if you can! When it's happened to me I've been too shocked to get a plate though.

i know. only got myself to blame if something happens.

Yes getting a plate did not cross my mind. In my younger days I would have just turned back and removed a window or two with my lock , but I am old and sensible now, just a flick of the finger and volley of abuse and I was on my way

Witnessed bus fondling by a brakless Dolan on Old Kent Road this morning. Stahp plees

'That's really dangerous you know'

just got told this by a new colleague (I'm the new one in the office), started to laugh and then realised she was deadly serious...

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so just as we get driverless cars we get riderless bikes?

Working from home with a hangover. 2/10

I was a bit of a twat this morning but so were a couple of other people so I think we're all square.

They have descended in their droves James. There are some fucking idiots out there who may as well have no brains

I work with said individual, @monkdagola, and have had a word..