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This morning I decided against riding down it and instead kept to the road - far safer and quicker, although far more annoying for the cabbie trying to pass me. How can they spend so much monies yet get it so wrong
A flaw in the current segregated provision is that it is heavily route based rather than grid based. So right turns onto Tower bridge are a bit fucked.
TFL lack the expertise to design cycle infrastructure and so a lot of their output is sub par.
They could of course just copy the available dutch instructions, as long as they remember to swap left to right etc.
Backstop
What a shit bit of design the bit round Tower Gateway is. I want to ride along Tower Hill and turn right to go over the bridge. I either ride across into oncoming cyclists then into traffic to get across to the junction, or I ride to the end of it then dice with death trying to get across without being cut up by a bellend on a Boris bike. It's even better going the other way and guaranteed that the light is always on red with the shortest possible area to stop in, if you can guess which lane you need to be riding down.
This morning I decided against riding down it and instead kept to the road - far safer and quicker, although far more annoying for the cabbie trying to pass me. How can they spend so much monies yet get it so wrong?
I'm doing Fenchurch St to Sevenoaks 4 to 5 times a week and have been for about a year - mainly because I hate SE Railways with a passion and refuse to use their stinking piss-boxes to get to work on.
Plus - mileage is up and I'm in better shape than I have been for years.
Cons - my food bill is nearly as much as my season ticket, I can sleep standing up and I'm wearing out bits of my bike like its going out of fashion.