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Both E&C and St. G's Circus are turds. Honestly, there's so much potential for decent sensible SAFE junctions and instead TFL seemed to be determined to make them stupid and completely over complicated.
The cycle lanes at E&C feel like they've been rolled by drunk people. They're so bumpy. And don't get me started on that ASL.
It NEEDS to be the size of all three lanes with an advance sequence to let bikes go first and a set of snipers to pick off mopeds that sit in the ASL box when it's not for them. Maybe some tyre spikes for the vape lord delivery drivers who always seem to have half their sodding vehicle in the ASL too.
Miitch
the most dangerous bit around there is at the other (E&C) end of London road going South. We have an ASL box in front of the left hand lane, which has a dotted cycle lane entry channel coming into the right hand side of it, i.e. up the right hand side of what has been a bus lane for most of the length of London Road. The left lane is a bus lane until 5-10 metres before the lights, when it changes into a left turn lane. Cars in the middle lane wanting to turn hard left towards borough high street have to cut across the bike lane (who is this, btw? If you want to turn left there you've made a mistake nine times from ten as you should have gone down Borough Road from St George's Circus). You have bikes who want to go counter clockwise around the faraday memorial "roundabout" encouraged to move to the front down that bike lane, and cars trying to cut across it to turn left.
The ASL box should cover all of the lanes and at least have a channel into it one lane over to the right. They want to encourage people to the bizarre segregated bike lane on the inside of the faraday "roundabout" though.
I can't link to google maps because it still seems to be showing the old road layout at that point.