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anidel
There are no bus lanes on the High Road Eastbound, and Westbound cars park in it outside of rush hour peak making it useless.
The roads are wide, but parking restrictions relaxed at the weekend... try cycling on a Sunday and it's a big car park with narrow lanes and the chance of being doored on one side or caught in a bumper-to-bumper obstacle course if you try and move into the lane to get space.
Where the road appears to have two lanes (painted bits at junctions) it is just dangerous. An in-reality single wide lane splits into 2 lanes at every traffic lights, and immediately merges back into 1 lane after the lights, meaning that cars take the space cyclists are in before every set of lights.
It's awful.
And I've tried having coffee outside at a few places, and it's just loud and polluted. Would really adore it if the traffic was reduced, the lanes narrowed and what traffic there is pushed a little farther from the shop/cafe frontage, and that the shops embraced Parisian style decking and terrace seating.
It could be the perfect High Road... if it were not treated as a main road.