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Oooh this is what everyone is on about... I couldn't really work out what people where talking about because I kind of missed it.
I headed past on Tuesday for the first time in some months, after the first set of lights all of the cyclists I was with peeled off down the cycle lane I didn't know was coming up and disappeared out of view behind me to me left. I thought "bollocks, now what's ahead..."
I clocked the cycle lane as I was on the move, didn't really manage to get a good look but I realised further up the road that it cut across the left turning for the A23? That kind of put me off, A - Because I didn't want to potentially be held at another set of lights. B - Didn't want to potentially get broadsided by someone (possibly a cyclist) turning onto the A23. C - I didn't know to where this lane was going to take me/spit me out exactly. D - I wanted to go straight ahead so I just stayed in my lane (where the bus gets released from at the lights in the video ^^).
10/10 Would stay prime in road and be a visible member of traffic again (by accident).
Re. the bus stop/cycle lane problem at the end of the segregation heading towards E&C fom Oval - a perfect illustration in this YouTube clip:
https://youtu.be/HkwDsJPFVmQ
From the plans that I've seen the upgrade finishes just before that bus stop so I don't know if there are plans to change the infrastructure there.