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@Oliver Schick
Yes, certainly. Usually these occasions don't see enough monitoring, so it's good that they're collecting (some) data. I do wish they counted bikes better.
As the area away from the main streets isn't filtered consistently, though, it is likely that slightly different rat-running patterns will establish themselves. As I said above, it's likely that one or some of the ladder streets will get consistently heavier flows after a period of habituation, i.e. people getting off Green Lanes to cut across to Wightman Road north of the bridge. When you filter (which, of course, they're only doing by accident here and not by intention), you have to filter a whole area or the rat-runners soon discover the routes that are still open to through motor traffic.
There is also the ongoing problem of more and more new development being located in Central London and not elsewhere so that through motor traffic flows (mainly servicing and deliveries, private motor traffic will keep going down) might not change too much or might even see a slight increase. Development located elsewhere would help to spread traffic out instead of everybody piling only into Central London every morning.