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Surely if you come to a stop at the white line of the traffic light and dismount and step on to the footway with your bike a push it along the footway this wouldn't be an offence. There isn't a white line on the footway is there, and it isn't an offence to push a bike on the footway.
Almost certainly (not an offence), especially if you then push your bike across the crossing or continue pushing it along the footway, but this usually comes up with people doing the "dismount to cross the white line (or pass it on the footway), remount the other side and continue through the junction" dance.
In that case avoiding the stop line by using the footway and putting your bike back on the road just after the stop line then riding on through the junction may then be considered under the offences relating to "ride recklessly on a road or in a dangerous, careless or inconsiderate manner" (the actual riding through the junction, not the bypassing of the stop line).
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In that case avoiding the stop line by using the footway and putting your bike back on the road just after the stop line then riding on through the junction may then be considered under the offences relating to "ride recklessly on a road or in a dangerous, careless or inconsiderate manner" (the actual riding through the junction, not the bypassing of the stop line).
This is more or less what I did. It is a horrendous right turn with bus and HGV traffic in both directions and no filter lane. You get treated to on-coming traffic coming right at you having swerved out to pass the left-turning traffic going into Heygate St from the north, and you get passed very close by on the inside by traffic continuing on to Elephant from the south.
It felt safer and more sensible all round just to use the red light as an opportunity to get off and use the crossings.
Even more sensible will be using a route that avoids having to make this particular right turn...
YouSir56922
Surely if you come to a stop at the white line of the traffic light and dismount and step on to the footway with your bike a push it along the footway this wouldn't be an offence. There isn't a white line on the footway is there, and it isn't an offence to push a bike on the footway.