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It was turning left from calthorpe street to phoenix place, right from phoenix place to mount pleasant then left from mount pleasant where it intersects with Gough st onto the continuation of mount pleasant
I get that sometimes it is permitted or safer but this sequence just seemed like trying to take the shortest possible route.
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Ah, I see. I took 'Calthorpe Street to Mount Pleasant' too literally. Yes, that is a daft series of manoeuvres.
Ironically, I just saw someone do this when he jumped the red light at Stamford Hill/Manor Road to turn left into Manor Road. He rode around the corner on the footway, probably because he thought to himself that it's not *really* jumping a light.
Was that on Farringdon Road, Phoenix Place, or Gough Street? The latter's cobbly, but I don't expect that's what you were referring to.
I've been trying to work out how one might go around a corner via the footway three times on either of these streets but it's not obvious to me what you mean.
In general (apart from possible site-specific reasons) people ride on the footway because they imagine it's 'safer', which it isn't. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do it specifically to go around a sequence of corners, although I've seen plenty do it for just one corner.