• twitter.com/sparkes/status/78701­2414021701637

    I've watched this video a couple of times now, and I think the John Lewis driver doesn't commit an offence. The lorry is obscured by the cyclist in black, but in the gap between him and the bus you can clearly see that the driver has already passed the stop line when the cyclist light goes green. They are therefore entitled to complete their manoeuvre, and the only charge that I can think of is that they appear to accelerate a moment too late when the bus starts moving, but that's probably because they can't see what's happening ahead and quite understandable.

    Note how far forward the bus driver already is, at the edge of the 'Keep Clear' box, when they start out after letting the left-turner pass. As with all of these recently-rebuilt junctions, the engineering here makes rubbish compromises. In this instance, I suspect that TfL didn't give up any or not very much signal time to the cycle track but instead reduced the intergreen time (time designed precisely to enable people to complete such manoeuvres between different green phases) to a degree that's not safe, as usual in order to maintain motor traffic capacity.

    I may have missed something, but I don't think the driver is to blame here. The larger the envelope of a junction, the harder it is to shoehorn lots of different signal phases in, as traffic flows take longer to clear the junction, and the more problems there usually are.

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