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Traffic north along there is constrained by the limited green time to cross Camden Road. The cycle lane makes no difference, though maybe it makes the queue seem longer.
As always, if you consider the existing road to be innocuous, the lane is not for you. Though right turns on all of the temporary schemes are awkward at best. There are plans to properly rebuild some of the junctions in the near future including York Way.
I'd like Islington to filter Market Road as part of their pledge to LTN the whole borough, but I'm not sure they have the guts. If they did that they could rethink the mini-roundabout.
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Is anyone familiar with the new cycle lanes that have been put in around Camden over the last couple of months? Some of them seem very poorly implemented, my current fave is the segregated lane on York way between agar grove and market road. What was previously a wide and fairly innocuous stretch is now a segragated bike lane through the bus stop, with parked cars on the right. The road is significantly narrowed which seems to have worsened the traffic going north.
It makes the right turn onto market road really dangerous as there is no space or time to pull out from the bike lane, across the line of parked cars and traffic which is mostly going straight on, and then onto the roundabout. If I take the road then I just get abuse from arseholes telling me to use the bike lane.
I'm all for improving cycling infrastructure but it's frustrating when it seems to make life worse for cyclists. Is there anywhere I can send some feedback, or perhaps gain a better understanding of the overall plans for the area?