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This morning at the northbound junction of Borough High St and Southwark St, police were in force telling cyclists to hold back as the dustbin truck at the front was going to be turning left into Southwark St (its a no left there...). I think they wanted to chat with the driver.
Whilst I had no intention of filtering along the narrow gap to the left of the truck, I was somewhat staggered that once the policeman and his colleagues had conferred and decided that the truck wouldn't be turning left, that he declared to group that all was okay and we should indeed line up along the tight gap on the left of the truck. A number of them were happy to do so.