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@Oliver Schick
Well, an annoying occasion--what caused the problem here was not her contraflow cycling along this narrow street with heavy pedestrian footfall, but that she wasn't looking.
The A10 Curtain Road is a sad casualty of a compromise when most of the Shoreditch Triangle was returned to two-way operation in 2002/3. Hackney Cyclists succeeded, together with other local groups, such as Triangle Traders, in returning most of it to full two-way operation, except for the southern part of Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road. (I'm not counting the many narrow side streets inside the Triangle.) There were concerns about motor vehicle capacity at the time, which we argued were unfounded (and so it proved), but one-way in Curtain Road and the annoying right turn from Great Eastern Street into Pitfield Street were kept, unfortunately. It will probably be a while before that situation changes.