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I went out for a shop just now and noticed the same, especially, to no-one's surprise, on one-way streets. Obviously, as usual, most drivers are OK, but some let the side down massively. Stoke Newington High Street (the narrow bit) normally doesn't attract a lot of speeding owing to queues waiting there, but there was full-on, dangerous-feeling speeding by some drivers (with my in-built radar gun I'd say one was doing about 60mph). Not only was the bit south of Church Street empty of cars, but also the bit north of it, and I think it must have been that combination which prompted it. Even speeding along Rectory Road seemed faster than usual, again mainly because of one idiot. There were also three police cars that sped through, two southbound on Rectory Road, one unmarked minivan and a marked car, plus an unmarked 4x4 northbound in the High Street that nearly hit a pedestrian walking in the carriageway in the right hand lane.

Another thing I've noticed in Stoke Newington, although that effect may have abated by now, is that more cyclists than before seem to have been riding contraflow in the High Street, which at times has felt quite empty. While people have always done that, I saw four in a row doing it last week. None today, though.