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That right turn has gone completely stupid. There's a prominent "No right turn" sign on the traffic lights, then a low-key and unclear "Right turn in two phases" sign on a stand on the pavement.
The confusion I've seen since Monday has included cyclists not using the new bike lane and turning right using the old method (including me); cyclists going in the bike lane and turning right using the old method across the stream of oncoming bikes from Parliament Square; and cyclists getting confused by the new two-phase right turn that doglegs onto a pavement and holds you for ages on a red.
One cyclists who chose not to use the bike lane was jeered - actually jeered - off the main carriageway by a group of three motorbike twats.
It's such a pointless bit of fuckery.
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The confusion I've seen since Monday has included cyclists not using the new bike lane and turning right using the old method (including me); cyclists going in the bike lane and turning right using the old method across the stream of oncoming bikes from Parliament Square; and cyclists getting confused by the new two-phase right turn that doglegs onto a pavement and holds you for ages on a red.
This is a large problem that TFL have made for themselves by choosing to build for particular flows of traffic. It makes more sense along Whitechapel road but for central London roundabouts, cf. E&C, there is the problem of 'non orthodox' movements.
Hopefully with tracks proving to be massively popular there is the political space to extend the scheme in new directions to build a proper network.
Backstop
You can go onto the pavement by the churchill statue to turn right onto Whitehall. Saw a group of cyclists who had come from Westminster Bridge stopped at a traffic light there this morning.