• Had a fucking scary one tonight on my way to SE beers.

    Was halfway across southwark bridge heading southbound and riding in the main traffic lane (rain + nodders + slippy cs7 paint + high kerbs = no thankyou), not a single car behind me thanks to the lovely light phasing at the top for the cycle cut through from cannon street when a car coming the opposite direction (northbound) actually pulls out of his lane into mine so he's driving on the wrong side of the road and tries to squeeze me to the side which leaves me stuck with absolutely nowhere to go (high kerb of the segregated lane to my left, him fast approaching to my right) so I scrub off as much speed as possible and pretty much hug the divider to try and get away from him as much as possible getting ready to bail out over the barrier if it looks like there's going to be a collision.

    thankfully he passed without hitting me but he was as close as a taxi might pass you sharing a bus lane in heavy traffic and I'd hazard doing at least 30mph.

    I was so pre-occupied with not getting hit and thinking WTF is this guy doing that I couldn't tell you the model/color/license plate of the car so no chance of getting anything done about it but trying to reason it all out in my head I can only come up with two scenarios as to why he'd be driving on the wrong side of the road over a fucking BRIDGE in the centre of London

    the first that he's a fuckwit of the highest order and thought it was one-way across the bridge but that theory doesn't hold water as he pulled over despite there being no traffic whatsoever in either direction so it's not like he was trying to overtake/avoid anything and there was a fucking cyclist with a bright flashing light in front heading towards him! which leads me to believe that this was in fact probably done on purpose which to be honest is even more fucking scary regardless of if it was some psychopath or bored teenagers 'avin a larf'.

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