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MCamb
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This is a real swings and roundabouts issue for me because motorised traffic is lessened if i leave at 6.45 compared to 7ish so there's less chance of lanes being blocked and more of a free flowing commute through the colliers wood/tooting section which is the narrowest part of the route.
however the trade off is the bus lane out of morden isn't enforced for another 15 minutes and every single day I will be dangerously passed by at a bare minimum one black cab and one large van regardless of whether I take the centre of the lane or not as the vans usually want to turn left halfway along to use the back roads up to wimbledon (which is also a 20mph road with speed bumps that i've never seen a car doing less than 25 along it but that's another story). and the cabbies just feel the need to always use the bus lane (or drive in the middle of both) even though traffic along that road is always free flowing at that point and there's literally no reason to not use the lane next to it other than to be a massive cunt about it and crowd me as much as possible.