This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Heal up fast

It's concerning this happened in daylight on a dry day, can imagine many more incidents occurring on dark wet evenings.

All the best mate, heal up quickly

Heal up soon buddy and enjoy the morphine.

Didn't cycle because of climbing tonight = lots of gear

7:15 Checked Brockley Station, no problems to London Bridge
7:30 Leave for Station
7:50 Departures to London Bridge now fucked. Have to resort to Overground and 47 bus from Canada Water to get to work, Overground quiet, bus was fine

6/10 - could have been much worse.
10/10 - overhearing all the people asking TFL staff why the Jubilee Line wasn't running

Good luck with surgery, heal up soon mate.

P.S Keep us updated.

GWS. They're nice at St Thomas's.

Had to call out two cyclists for rlj-ing. One of 'em skipped round behind a bloke who was crossing and pushing a buggy which was the final straw.

Some dodgy cycling this morning, some of it mine.

Roads remarkably clear.

I have no recollection of this morning's commute.
I must've nodded off.

you get up late

so tube strike = a TONNE more cyclists on the roads this morning... smoked everyone at the lights..even though I was the only one in racing mode :P

seriously though - some sketchy cycliing going down down today WATCH OUT PEOPLE

Fack! You deffo weren't the rider I saw then. That was just a minor spill. Heal up soon.

rode a bike to school this morning. will ride one home later.

no real difference for me, but then I left home at 9am to avoid the majority of the great unwashed masses

Bike on train after pub tonight, and probably won't remember much of that.

Ouch. Sorry to hear that, hope you heal up well and soon.

I couldn't make out from any of the videos if there was a raised or a flat kerb at the entry point, but my spideysense started tingling as soon as I saw the existence of the kerb in the first place and I thought "nah, surely they wouldn't put an actual raised kerb there, especially with that angle. They can't be that stupid".

Oh, wait.

Oh no. Hope all goes well with surgery. Heal up buddy!

In some places it's a dropped kerb, some it's raised, others it's a white line. There isn't a great deal to distinguish the different forms of separation from each other. Add in traffic, maybe some darkness and wet weather and yes, people are going to come off.

That entry point is temporary no? The segregation starts further back on the plans

No idea, I don't live in the area anymore and haven't fully reviewed the consultation documents or plans.

Temporary or not they shouldn't be adding dangerously high kerbs anywhere, but especially not on a major trunk route with hundreds of cyclists going through at all hours of the day :/

Clearly the strike was so terrible that everyone in my office was afraid to even try.

Out of 30 people in my office, i am the only one.

The entry will be just past the Oval tube junction with no kerb to enter.

Unfortunately these tracks are still being built by engineers used to building for cars.

(https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/oval-triangle)

edit: ahh it's a stepped track, the kerb is therefore deliberate I guess, bit of cock-up to route people up over it without amendment. Something for the lawyers perhaps @willski...

And that bus stop on 're-entry' is helpfully left off the plans.

Raid everyone's snack drawers.

I'd just go home..

Ouch. Hope the recovery is fast and complication free.

Get naked.