Navigating Bow roundabout/flyover

I'd imagine they're still tinkering with it. A lot of public money will be wasted there in the coming years on rubbish designs. The only solution is to get rid of the roundabout and flyover and construct a simple junction, as well as a new town centre around it. This is where development should go, not into tower blocks in Central London. It would essentially be self-financing from developer contributions.

Absolutely...that really is the only way. You have only to look at a map of the area or an aerial view to see how ridiculously complicated that whole junction is. The simpler a junction, the easier it is to understand and negotiate, the safer it becomes. Couple that with reduced speed limits, although by simplifying a junction this could well be a side effect. Many of these massive junctions in London, designed to be part of a huge London wide road system which never materialised in the end, have built in multi lane wide stretches which encourage short bursts of speed where there is space, followed by dramatic slowing down when the road narrows again. Simplify the junction, taking some of that space away from motor traffic results in more uniform speeds across a whole motor vehicle journey.

 But getting TfL traffic planners to see that argument is so hard.  I am pretty fed up at the moment having been to a meeting a couple of weeks ago about the proposed Lewisham Gateway development.  Here there actually is a unique opportunity to redesign a major junction from scratch... They are removing the horrid roundabout completely.  What have they come up with, despite advice to the contrary, more of the same old multi lane complex junctions... And whenever we suggested taking space away from motor traffic, TfL reps come up with reasons why they can't.  The whole thing looks like a massive multi lane race track.  Depressing.  We have told them exactly what we think, but I have a horrid feeling it will make no difference.