Bank junction

Not seen much talk of this since it opened, how is it now?

Not ridden through it recently, though saw it in background of BBC Breakfast outside broadcast, along with obligatory occasional vehicles still breaking the ban.

Quiet, though with emboldened pedestrians. They have been swamping the crossings recently regardless of light phase..

Bank Junction at 8am last Friday

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Quite right too!

Not really it makes it pretty sketchy.

Much nicer

Had some friends visiting over the last week and regularly walked past Bank junction on the way to touristy places.

Don't know how different it was before, but I saw PLENTY cabs, trucks and private vehicles driving through the junction.

What is going on?

Plenty still go through it. I think they end up with a fine. Must be generating a fair amount of cash.

In July someone FoIed the number of PCNs issued and it seems to run at 1000-2000 offences a day (or a million quid a week if you do some hand wavy maths)

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bank_on_safety_enforcement

Interesting the way offences looked like they were dropping during the warning phase but have been fairly flat since.

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So its not enforcement then - more like a congestion charge.

1500 is two a minute if divided over the 12 hours it applies for. That surely shows that the signage is not up to scratch if this many people are getting it wrong.

a £65 a pop congestion charge.

Half the vehicles I saw going through were cabs, so I expect they don't give a fuck and have some way of avoiding paying them.

I think it is a £120 fine no points. I ride through it every day and regularly tell drivers and esp people on motorbikes about the rule. The signage is lame

Is there anyone I should write to about the lack of enforcement of this rule? I kind of feel like Bank junction has become more dangerous recently.

"As part of our monitoring program, we would like to understand your current perceptions of the junction and adjacent streets since Bank on Safety went live on 22 May 2017. If you would like to participate in this survey you can do so by clicking here. This survey will be available until 9 November 2017." https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/transport-and-streets/traffic-management/Pages/Bank-On-Safety.aspx

Or you could email them, bankonsafety@cityoflondon.gov.uk

looked like a serious accident this morning, loads of ambulance and police but couldn't tell what had happened. Hope noone is hurt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5094259/London-junction-sees-drivers-fined-7m-just-four-months.html

The comments on that article are very entertaining.

https://www.petermurraylondon.com/blogs-and-articles/are-you-standing-comfortably

12 per cent wanted to allow black cabs and other vehicles back into the junction, 70 per cent of whom identified themselves as taxi or private hire drivers

So about 10% of people who responded to the survey were cabbies. Not terribly representative of the public at large, and does show an issue where certain groups 'brigade' such surveys.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/traffic-will-be-banned-from-three-roads-leading-to-bank-junction-following-cyclists-death-a4064271.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/rulebreaking-city-drivers-rack-up-25m-in-fines-after-bank-crackdown-a4183361.html

Proposals for no flying motorbikes on Threadneedle Street (and other changes)

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/streets/all-change-at-bank-project