• Cycling up barnsbury road last night. For those who don't know it it has loads of speed bumps and traffic islands on it so it's virtually impossible to overtake and absolutely not worth trying. Cycling about 3m behind the car in front of me when my spidey senses start tingling and I realise some knobber is going to try an overtake. I take primary because there's no way he can safely pass here. Plus there's nowhere to go?! He then proceeds to go onto the other side of the road and then slowly push left, effectively pushing me into the side of the road - all so he can be directly behind the car 2m in front. Immediately turns off as well… prick.

  • I used to ride Barnsbury Road heading North after work most days, but have changed my route now as I got fed up of all the pointless, impatient and dangerous overtakes going down that road. I think it'd be better it the road narrowings weren't there.

    I raised it with the Met Cycle Safety Team as a good place to do their undercover close passing initiative. Maybe if you and @vilms5000 highlight this area to them as well, we could be closer to something being done there.

  • FWIW I got a BT Openreach guy told off after I contacted BT about how badly he was driving up Barnsbury Rd. What really annoys me is that whenever a driver overtakes you dangerously at the south end you always catch them at the chicane.

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