This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Awesome. Police were blocking the sad cycle lane that skips those lights at endymion road so I wondered what was going on.

I've posted about this before--there was a very successful trial of this in Haringey about 20 years ago, which was then not continued, except sporadically like this. 'Denying criminals the use of the road network' is by all accounts a successful prevention strategy, but I haven't heard about anything like this for years. I'm sure it goes on all the time, but it is as it always is with successful strategies--those they are aimed at would eventually find ways of getting around them if they are deployed all the time. Good job they didn't catch you with that stinger.

Seen them do this a few times, usually get good results, they stop just about everyone that looks suspect not just random hence the high success rate on folks with outstanding convictions or fines etc..