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Not sure if this is the right place, but every time I ride across Waterloo bridge south to north, I wonder about the clusterfuck of a junction/light sequence, for riders coming down from Wellington St, and that shared footpath, which gets you to the Strand. All of them wanting to cross the bridge north to south.
But then they get that traffic light sequence which gives them priority as they head to the bridge, but the lights at the crossing directly before the bridge are red. Which creates this uncertainty, in terms of who has priority, as I'm sure the pedestrian crossing is on the red man. So you get this mass of cyclists hovering as people, may or may not cross, before getting frustrated with the lights, and jumping them as soon as there is the slightest gap in the pedestrian traffic, even if its best that they should wait.
I've ridden across that bridge for years and that junction is shocking in its inability to provide enough time, or direction so as to increase the flow of traffic, cyclist and pedestrian without causing confusion of conflict.
Charlie LCC, Oliver, is there any work being done on this to improve it? Or will it just continue to be a clusterfuck for the foresseable?