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Yes, I'd say it is. Especially if the people at the front have been waiting there for ages and you have no idea how fast they are (or they've already overtaken you when it's safe to do so). It's basically just advanced shoaling for bellends.
Oh, saw a cyclist/pedestrian incident last night which resulted in cyclist pushing pedestrian in a 'pre-cursor to a fight kind of way'.
Lots of pedestrians on that stretch seem to either only look one way, or just don't look at all. Terrifying.
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Fair enough. I think I've done it once to like 3 people waiting. Obviously when there's a big line of people it's insanely rude. But generally when you're fixed acceleration is much greater and carrying speed to the bottom of that road isn't hard. Or top depending on how you go. Maybe I'm just a dick.
Really doesn't surprise me. From also going to a pool club near there regularly, I can tell you crossing there is a bit of a fucking nightmare. It's very hard to tell what the cyclist signal is and then once you cross its hard to tell where traffic is coming from. I do feel like they ruined that junction. Obviously you can just wait for the green man to cross, but most pedestrians aren't that patient as the green man occurs for 20 seconds every 2 minutes. This is at southwark station. It's particularly bad for people crossing in front of the TfL building.
duckland
Is it still a dick move if you're not wearing rugby shorts and pull away quick leaving everyone in your dust?
Don't use that route but I do cross it several times a week to go to the gym. Recently saw a guy on a average-ish hybrid roll up on the right of someone on a Boardman Elite with full Di2. When the lights went he was clearly trying to overtake the Boardman guy, going full sprinter mode, and all I could think was "not in a month of sundays mate."