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I did have a little search for this as i'm sure it's come up many many times before but i couldn't find it....and the LCC article i found was from 2006.
My usual route back from work is past those damn cycle lanes by UCL, i avoid them like the plague as usual and take the road. I hear something getting extremely close to my back wheel, it's a taxi driver trying to clip me, intimidate me or both, he's screaming at me to use the cycle lane, this goes on for a bit so i slow and politely tell him to stop driving like a maniac and to go fuck himself. Even more irate he now edges left trying to force me into the raised curb between the road and cycle lane. I stop, shaking with rage, HTFU and then give chase to throw my lock through his back window, he makes a clean gettaway. I forget to get his number plate like an idiot.
Anyway, as far as i'm aware it's the cyclists choice if they want to use a cycle lane or not (you weigh up the dangers). I know they were thinking of changing the law a little while ago. Am i right or is the irate taxi driver correct?