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@pajamas
Malpas Road taking you off Lewisham Way into the depths of Brockley used to be absolutely horrific - recently they've done a super-proper tarmac job on it and now it's like cycling over a baby's bottom.
My slept-on shocker that any Dalstonite who's cut through from the Rio down to Balls Pond will know: King Henry's Walk. A craggy mess of loose tarmac, sleeping policemen and massive gaping holes. Also Grosvenor Rd, back of Highbury, looks like the San Andreas fault runs through it at the moment.
There are two or three very nasty, yet, interestingly, cuboid, holes - roughly the depth of graves - in the middle of the road on Mortimer Street at the moment, heading up to TCR.. they are almost worse cos most of the road is okay. I do wonder how many teeth-jarring incidents there've been recently with people landing in those - most of the time your sightlines are taken up with the backs of taxis and they're suddenly there..