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And this.
My point @BMMF, was that in the specific context of the stretch of road between the Essex Road junction with Upper Street and the lights at Angel/Pentonville it is utter madness at the moment. Cars, vans, motorbikes, buses, lorries are jammed tight. I don't just mean bumper to bumper. It's a narrow stretch of road for two lanes as it is, so the gaps between vehicles are negligible. Personally, I'm more than content to wait in line, as is more often the case I'll take the side streets.
What I'm not so keen on is poor manners and reckless driving by myriad cyclists (as well as other road users but as a cyclist I notice poor cycling more obviously) who scramble past showing scant regard for others only to find themselves with nowhere to go and causing a block for all other road users including cyclists, when they eventually reach the lights. Training seems an obvious solution to this. I'd just like to see a bit more of it.
My earlier reference to "noddy mc nodders" was perhaps a little ambiguous but the implication was "bad cyclists".
It's not a "fixie elitist" remark. It's simply my opinion on the issue of safety and courtesy from other road users, something I was shocked by at the lack of it this morning.