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Bloomsbury Cycle Lanes - Anyone know if there is CCTV?
Quick trot from Birkbeck to Norfolk Arms about 8 pm this evening, decide not to use the stupid cycle lane for all the usual reasons. Hear a honk from behind me and feel the inescapable sound of a taxi coming past. Then it comes closer and closer and almost forces me off the road - and I'm about a metre in in the first place. Just about misses me. But clearly trying to force me over at about 15-20 mph.
Decide to have a word. Catch up. He decides to ram me off the road. Just about stay up. Wheel almost goes under his rear wheel. Black marks all down the arm of my jacket. I see red. Catch him up at Euston road junction (he's turned left on Marchmont Street). His window is open, so I have a word
"What the fuck are you doing", is my opening gambit
"You should use the fucking cycle lanes"
"They're a liability there. Decided not to use them. You tried to kill me"
"Yeah, wish I fucking killed you. What are you going to do about it"
"I've got your number" (not strictly true at this point.
[Spits at me and speeds off. I think I've got the gob as dna...].
Number plate starts with M. Taxi licence something like 22687. Short, late 30s, goatee. Red t-shirt.
Ok, so, my question is: is there CCTV along the Bloomsbury Cycle lanes that I can get. At this point, I just think this guy is a cock, and I could just about handle him. But anyone who tries to drive someone off the road deserves all I can throw at him. Even if this is London, my friends.