Kingsway and Aldwych are death on a stick. In the mornings I go up Drury Lane (which is usually deserted) from Waterloo instead, and in the evenings go through Covent Garden (Endell St, Bow St, Wellington St) and use the bike crossing to go straight across on to Waterloo Bridge (the lights synch up perfectly for sprinting on to the Bridge and outrunning the buses that stop by the Royal Theatre). If I was going East at the that point I'd go along Stamford Street and on.
Kingsway and Aldwych are death on a stick. In the mornings I go up Drury Lane (which is usually deserted) from Waterloo instead, and in the evenings go through Covent Garden (Endell St, Bow St, Wellington St) and use the bike crossing to go straight across on to Waterloo Bridge (the lights synch up perfectly for sprinting on to the Bridge and outrunning the buses that stop by the Royal Theatre). If I was going East at the that point I'd go along Stamford Street and on.