ASL vehicle offender

weds night, a guy on a big motorbike rode the raised bike lane, he was tailgating me all the way. It was those 2 raised sections of bike lane just north of liverpool st on bishopsgate.

He stopped at the red light about 10 metres later and I asked him "What the fuck were you doing?" he calmly replied "Getting past the busses". to which i replied "you fat prick" as he sped off. cunt.

We opposed that farcesillyty (on the A10 Norton Folgate) strongly when it was proposed but they put it in, anyway, and as you can see, not only is the conception terrible but also the execution. The A10 Norton Folgate and Bishopsgate needs a major rebuilding job.

The scheme wasn't really driven by cyclists' needs, by the way, but by the City's interest in completing the 'ring of steel', i.e. plonk a traffic island in the middle with a little plod shelter and camera pole on it, although the avowed intention was to help cyclists avoid the queues that would form when vehicles were checked at the entry point where the main lane was narrowed down. It is astonishing what complex technical problems that sort of thing can cause.

Given the intention of allowing cyclists to filter past, at all the 'ring of steel' entry points into the City they wanted to have a segregated cyclists' bypass, and it was only on the A10 Norton Folgate that there wasn't sufficient width to accomplish that. Plus a pedestrian crossing right there ... that whole scheme is just an atrocious mess.