This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I do Cs7 Wimbledon to Stockwell, it's ok going in, at about 0700ish it's more grief coming home and having to deal with the stretch from Tooting Bec onwards which is full of wankers both in cars and pedestrians. There is also a high nodder count on the route

I do Morden to Clerkenwell on CS7 and pretty much agree with this entirely.

Leaving at 7am from wimbledon at the latest is recommended, the traffic is much more free flowing and the number of strava wankers and clueless cyclists is much lower (until the ones who live closer wake up and join you around stockwell) coming home it's a random clusterfuck no matter what time you ride.

the bit about tooting is spot on as well, expect/anticipate every car might turn across you in/out of sidestreets, pedestrians will walk out in front of you without looking as well as just stand in the middle of the road for no good reason or just look you in the eye and step out in front of you. East london comes a close second for weapons grade morons but tooting somehow pips it to the post. coming home the best thing to do is take primary at tooting bec and just power down the hill behind the car in front covering your brakes the entire way.

in general though cs7 is fine all the way up to E&C, the only thing that really can hold you up is when idiots block junctions (oval is bad for this) and there's no way around them cars blocking entry to the bus lane forcing buses to stack up through the junctions is a favourite pastime of theirs.