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I went earlier in the week to do some counts of red light jumpers at one of the sets of lights. I like Regent's Park riding, I most often ride solo there, before the gates open, in the winter and it is lovely to have a relatively peaceful, convenient place to ride on the way to work. I also sometimes ride with my club, CC London, doing either easy chat laps or through-and-off quicker laps. We go to significant efforts to make sure that we do not ride in an antisocial fashion.
Even as a commuter I was pretty horrified at the number of people riding through red lights at a pedestrian crossing. More than a quarter of people facing red lights jumped through them. Generally solo cyclists, occasionally pairs. I didn't see any bigger groups go through reds while I was there (half an hour, in the morning).
I think that traffic bumps/tables will be a real nuisance in the park. It seems to be an ad-hoc facility that is just going to disappear, and I think London will be just a little bit worse for it.