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At the moment when you're cycling northbound you have to choose between 2 pretty rubbish options: 1. ride on the cycle lane on the pavement and deal with unpredictable pedestrians, poor surface, driveways, junctions, lack of priority etc or 2. ride on the carriageway and get drivers breathing down your neck because they want to join the queue to turn on to Upper Richmond Road as quickly as possible.
If the cycle lane is in the carriageway I think it might make things more straightforward and if it's a reasonably wide decent cycle lane (i.e. not a faded, dotted white line about 90cm from the kerb) it might (along with the other changes) alter driver behaviour/attitude.