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Has there been a consultation or admission of guilt by those responsible for building one of the worst cycle lanes in London? I'm talking about the utter shit show that is the bike lanes on Westminster bridge.
I'm guessing the clown that designed that has probably knighted or something, but its absolutely shit. It may be usable at 4am but every time I've been along there in day or night its definitely more dangerous than it was before, and I now ignore it completely and cycle in the road 100% of the time.
Obvious major hazard is tourists just standing in it taking selfies or pics for gram of Big Ben and the London Eye, which I accept is likely to happen at probably the worlds most photographed clock and big wheel. Do TFL or whoever came up with this not consider footfall and the gazillions of people at this spot ALL THE FUCKING TIME, and maybe try and come up with a workable design. There's nothing to indicate it is a cycle lane so nobody treats it like one, no blue smurf road of even painted bicycles on the road. And the lane itself is stupidly super narrow with no way for passing any gawping zombie peds or any cyclists which makes it feel very sketchy.
And every 3 feet they've got what I assume are some kind of anti terror pavement mounting bullshit, rectangular metal posts that are serrated and look like they'd fuck you up good and proper if you had the misfortune to crash or be knocked into one.
Seriously who comes up with this shit. I want to see whoever came up with it to ride along it any at time during the day and report back how they found the experience, and if its summarised as anything other than harrowing, they're talking bollocks. I might try and film it one day going over in both directions to show how bad it is.