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@Sumo
Just had the worst fucking commute. First, what the fuck are the traffic works at St. Pauls station, I'm heading east, I don't want a diversion taking me back to holborn road. Had to jump up on the pavement to Cheapside, turn around again and follow my normal route by cannon street, then there were cones blocking off 1 lane of traffic across the traffic lights; no restriction on turning, purely just to make it awkward.
Then I nearly got hit by a cunt in a BMW going about 50mph.
The a bus tried to run me down by the Sainsburys in Whitechapel. I was sat in front of it in the ASL in the lane to head straight on waiting for the lights. Then suddenly the bus comes up right behind me, like inches from my wheel while it was still red, hell, even the green man for people to cross was on. I turn about and shout "what the fuck" to the driver, to which he responds by pointing at the turning left signal for the lane of traffic our left, separated by a good couple of meters of concrete and metal railings. So I pointed to him, then to our red light, and again he just points to the green light for turning left while mouthing something at me. I decided just to sit in front of him and see if he's stupid enough to run me down until it was our green light.
The worst bit is, he wasn't just a shit driver, trying to turn left where you physically can't, but he was driving the 25, which goes straight on, same as me.