I was going through at about 1820 and although there were ambos and rozzers, it seemed quite fresh.
I fucking hate it. I saw, from the top deck of a bus, two girls running through stationary north bound traffic, level with the McDonalds, rushing to get a south bound bus which was sitting by the McDonalds. They were focussing solely on the bus so didn't see the scooter, with pillion passenger, filtering up the right hand side of the stationary traffic. The first girl made the gap and the second girl got hit full on by the scooter, albeit at about 10 mph. The girl, the rider and the pillion passenger hit the deck while the other girl kept on going and for some reason laughing maniacally. The girl who got hit, got up and ran to get her bus holding her arm. The poor scooter dudes were stunned and were left with a pretty fucked looking bike.
I also live right by some traffic lights/ped crossing on Coldharbour lane and it is about 20 to 30 yrds from two bus stops but people will run out into the road rather than wait 3 min for the next bus. Came home one day to find a fire engine had ripped out one of the traffic lights, a lamp post and a load of railings because some kid had ran across the road to get a bus and not seen/heard the blues and twos. Fucking carnage all because nobody seems to be taught how to cross the road anymore.
It seems a popular way of displaying ones manhood, devil-may-care attitude, and general level of intestinal fortitude amongst young(ish) males in the Brixton area to walk out in front of traffic deliberately slowly- looking neither left nor right.
The goal here is to make traffic slow to avoid you- in clear deference to your super-awesome power.
This is very common when crossing the Brixton Road, on ones way to the bus stop.
Presumably the bus-queue is a target rich environment for the young men to display there awesomeness too via the SlowWalk method.
It seems a popular way of displaying ones manhood, devil-may-care attitude, and general level of intestinal fortitude amongst young(ish) males in the Brixton area to walk out in front of traffic deliberately slowly- looking neither left nor right.
The goal here is to make traffic slow to avoid you- in clear deference to your super-awesome power.
This is very common when crossing the Brixton Road, on ones way to the bus stop.
Presumably the bus-queue is a target rich environment for the young men to display there awesomeness too via the SlowWalk method.