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@flamenco_craig
Hi guys just created this account after reading this distressing news, I remember a friend of a nurse friend dying by a left turning lorry just east of the green bridge at Mile End some seventeen years ago.
My contribution to the discussion is that the last time I tried to negotiate the bow flyover I was going to Stratford from Whitechapel for a carers meeting, I was in a hurry and all the back routes were blocked off, none of the changes were marked and there was no attempt to redirect onto safer routes, I then found myself on a feeder route I think onto the Blackwall tunnel, I finally found the only route was the main drag, no double entendre intended.
I did explore the new link by the canal recently and like the other contributor, found it to be going in the wrong direction, nice if you want a pleasant cycle to Vicky Park, but useless for going to Stratford. Then once the other side of the circle of death (Bow Flyover) I found notices proclaiming the previously mentioned back routes would be out of commission until I think it said 2015.
Stay alive, luv C xx