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@nickvonfiction
Had a weird one this morning. So I was at the front of the queue of traffic in the right hand side of the ASZ at the lights on Holborn Circus, waiting to turn right on to New Fetter Lane. The lights change and I move off and wait for a gap in the traffic. Then this bus driver, whose cab has just appeared to my left, calls me out and says I shouldn't be alongside her bus. This was peculiar as I had been in front of her bus until the point at which she had decided to come alongside me. It's a funny junction where some vehicles will try and undertake you into New Fetter Lane, some will try and overtake and others will just follow your line and let you just take the lane. The best policy to me has been to try to position myself in a central position in the junction such as to encourage people to let me take the lane, but occasionally there is no stopping some drivers from forcing you off your line. She'd essentially been unable to just wait behind me, which nothing was stopping her from doing, and then blamed me for my positioning. There simply wasn't enough time to explain the concept of primary or that if she had been behind a car she would not have done it. Slightly bewildered. Fish and a half/10