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amey-
No, it's worse than nothing, because if the 'LTN' gets removed again because of this rubbish design, it won't be replaced before long, and if it remains, it won't get replaced by a better design.
It's a highly problematic scheme that hasn't solved the left-turn issue. Plenty of drivers will get it wrong and it will have created new problems inside the cell, like the ones that Ed mentions.
Just like everyone on a bike is a friend. All infra is good infra. For me.
I assume the double irony here is deliberate. :)
Oliver Schick
It's part of the Great Suffolk Street 'LTN'. The drawings you want are on page 12 of this document (see especially the inset):
https://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/23447/LSP-Great-Suffolk-St-area-LTN-trial-notice-dated-22-Oct-2020-.pdf
That short stretch is meant to be modally filtered as per this scheme, i.e. drivers aren't permitted to drive along Great Suffolk Street between Webber Street and Southwark Bridge Road. You've nearly missed out the 'no motor vehicles' sign in your photograph (less than half of it is visible at the right), and there should also be a 'no left turn' sign just ahead of the pedestrian crossing on Southwark Bridge Road (outside the left of the picture), as well as corresponding signs on the other side. The 'delineators' (wands) are flexible so emergency service drivers can drive over them. The whole thing is meant to be two cycle-only lanes on this short stretch. Needless to say, it's confusing and many drivers will fail to understand it. I have to say that in this case I don't blame them.
I've long given up commenting on the piss-poor way most of these schemes are conceived. This one is one of the worst I've ever seen, getting pretty much everything wrong. I doubt it'll last in this form, it's just so ridiculously bad (famous last words).