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Do you know if there have been any cases of this recently? I've been using it daily for the last few weeks and love being away from the traffic. Do remember reading about the muggings a while back, wonder if it's a seasonal thing (ie when commuters are cycling back in the dark).
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No, I don't know--I don't read the local press or cycle there very often. Most likely there won't have been any recently, but it has certainly been the case in the past that they went up when the weather improved.
All of these notorious locations have their established modus operandi, and I don't know if this one has developed it yet (or will develop one). The one I linked to was perpetrated by moped riders, and it seems to have gone a bit quiet about moped-related crime, fortunately, so perhaps the police crackdown has worked for the time being. Fingers crossed.
Oliver Schick
This is definitely true much of the time, but remember that there have been some horrific muggings along Q1, including at least one reported here:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13960427/
Generally, after dark the best advice is to use well-populated streets.
I'm sure Q1 is mostly very good from a personal safety perspective, but there have always been muggings, and sometimes mugging sprees, on this type of cycle route (and seemingly more the more a route became established and used), as offenders can basically count on people cycling along there regularly, and at sufficiently large intervals after dark that they are not likely to be disturbed while doing the mugging.
This part of Q1 is certainly nowhere near as bad as parts of Islington and De Beauvoir have been in the past, and Springfield currently, but it is still worth exercising discretion as to route choice at times when cyclists are more likely to become victims of crime.
Glad you're OK, jono84, as being pushed over like that while standing over the bike is definitely dangerous.