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I seem to have made an enemy of a bus driver on my commute, have had a couple of moments where I have been overtaken at unsafe spots, only to watch the gap between curb and bus narrowing in front of me, not nice.
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The annoying thing was how little I could have done about it.
I turn left immediately after that bus stop, so ignoring the seg lane and using the main carriageway means having to move back across the bus lane almost immediately (which means encountering the same problem as the bus driver did - a flow of cyclists and buses), so that's why I chose the seg lane.
Then when you get out of the seg lane there's no escaping into the main carriageway because there's a big ol' bus in your way. You've no option but to aim for the ever-closing gap.
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Can you make a point of taking more of the lane?
skidlidsid
hippy
Usually I take the CS7 bypass around E&C, but today I gave the newer infrastructure a go - the lane behind the bus stop, over the lights, then off towards Borough.
Now I remember why I stopped using it - I used the seg lane that spits you out into the bus stop, and lo and behold a bus was bearing down on me as I exited the lane. Worse than that, the driver didn't wait, and edged her bus closer and closer to the kerb - closing the gap on me while I was still on her left and forcing me into the gutter. For some reason she was angry at me...
Spent the rest of the commute thinking about how I should have stopped and snapped a photo of her and her driver number.
Edit: Raised a complaint with TfL about the layout design at that location and northbound at Oval. Suggested a simple timing change on the lights would do the trick there - an extra 5-10s for the cyclists to clear the bus stop before the buses get released.