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Yesterday evening, cycling up the middle, just coming up to the junction by Euston station (south side), two pedestrians dart out from traffic, both heads turned to the other way. Shouted and they nearly got out the way, but smashed my shoulder into one of them pretty hard, still sore today.
If I'd come off the bike, would have ended up faceplanting a bus, but still felt bad for the ped, suppose it's hardly second nature for most people to check oncoming traffic up the middle - although there was enough space for motorbikes to come up and past...