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Had a chat with a fellow local cyclist last night and I now think I know how the accident I saw in this thread - http://www.lfgss.com/thread47900.html - may have been caused.
Coming from Central London, you go under Deptford Bridge DLR station and just after that you come to another crossroads, outside Greenwich Magistrates Court. Here's what the junction looks like if you're coming from London:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.474236,-0.021858&spn=0.000277,0.000603&t=h&z=21&layer=c&cbll=51.474236,-0.021858&panoid=FgtIyinma8rHk22N-MUvDQ&cbp=12,90.73,,0,5
What she says is that the road on the right (doesn't seem to have any name that I can find) used to get its own green light to go straight across the junction. But now, that has been changed to be matched with the traffic leaving Greenwich High Rd opposite. But pretty much all that traffic wants to make a right turn across the junction and head into the centre of town, nobody is going straight on. If you exit onto the junction from The Road With No Name, YOU have priority, because the traffic from opposite heading into Central London has to cross your path. But they just don't realise they don't have an exclusive filter and bomb straight through the junction. Because that road is where the cycle route from Lewisham towards Greenwich emerges, I imagine it's a popular route for cyclists. She says that every day she gets problems crossing here and car drivers shouting, mistakenly think she's run a red light in front of them. I come through from the Greenwich end daily - and it does APPEAR like you've got a clear filter to go round into London, so I don't think the car drivers are really at fault here. But someone will get killed sooner or later.
Has anyone else been through that junction recently and seen this change to the lighting sequence? I can't confirm it because I'm not in the area until later tonight.
If it's correct, is this a complaint to take up with Greenwich Council? Or because it's so patently a death-trap, are organisations like the LCC interested in taking this up to find out who was responsible for creating an accident-waiting-to-happen (and possibly DID happen at least once in July)?