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Probably, to be honest, I am really not sure if I like the design of that particular lane because it kind of leads to nowhere in a sense and peds walk everywhere during busy times. I have even seen bikes going the opposite direction when it's clearly a one way lane. I only use it when I go to work which is the building on the left and I get off just pass that woman.
It's Elephant and Castle by the way and I am still a little terrified by the whole road design that is supposed to be more cycle friendly?
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I dislike that it's very bumpy as they didn't roll it enough. It's on my regular route north and seems to be busy with everyone going the right way the times I've used it. I'm not a huge fan of cycle infrastructure for my own riding as I can just ride either without issue but I feel it's a good thing for cycling especially for little kids and stuff so make the effort to use good infrastructure to show support for it. Much prefer filtered permeability so it isn't cycle specific but does make the area much nicer to ride in.
All the times I've had someone deliberately block me cycling or try to grab me to bitch about cyclists they've just given enough body language or something I've stopped a short distance from them and been able to reply whatever they yell at me with "well I've stopped, I'm not your problem" to which they then complained I was riding a high horse rather than a bike.
By giving cyclists that narrow scrap of leftover space once they put all the lanes they could in for drivers it means cyclists won't take up/use/block a full lane. It's rather simple maths that traffic models have spat out not a great love of cycling.
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It's Elephant and Castle by the way and I am still a little terrified by the whole road design that is supposed to be more cycle friendly?
It's rubbish and you're right to be concerned. The whole scheme is wrong in conception, but they bottled it over rebuilding the junction's whole underpinning (well, there wasn't funding and it would have taken years), which has led to the many issues with its shape.
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Oliver Schick
With the bus stop she put up and looking past you like she was looking what number bus was coming it really looked like she was just waiting for a bus.