A taxi driver acted in a psychotic manor toward me. Cannon St -> Tooly street

Just saw your response ... well, my opinion is that peds in that particular spot need to be given some warning ... you could ring that bell you have on your Langster.

You're right; it is a shamefully badly designed 'facility' that invites confrontation and collisions. One particular factor in that location is foreign tourists who, surprisingly, aren't alert to every nuance of British road/pavement/bike lane design and, like all of us when we are somewhere unfamiliar, tend to be distracted and looking anywhere but down at out feet or up at traffic lights. Another factor is theatre goers leaving in great numbers at the end of a performance. It would be some help there if the bike lane was at least coloured in to differentiate it.
Either way it is up to cyclists to give way to pedestrians. And if you use that section regularly then you know what to expect and can figure out ways of dealing with it. One of those ways is the highly technical manouevre known as 'slowing down'. Or you can just go through every time getting angry.