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Mr Motorbike's been up and down Camden High Road all morning. Seems to be pulling anyone doing anything wrong regardless of vehicle which is fair enough. The Hi-vis brigade loitering around the junctions though seem utterly clueless. I got stopped at the bottom of Parkway to receive some 'official advice' last night and, aside from some confusion about the ASL which I'll get back to in a second, they just seemed to be following a script about lights and reflectives without understanding what they were saying.
As far as the ASL thing goes, I was starting my journey from Parkway and I walked onto the road on the pedestrian crossing (while the green man was there) from the left of the streetview pic below and mounted my bike about where the Speedy van is, between the ASL and the pedestrian crossing, to wait for the green light to cross the junction which Mr Plod told me was effectively the same as jumping the light. I'm genuinely confused and I haven't found anything useful from the google but it seems to me that technically I joined the carriageway after the lights so can't have broken them. I'm happy to be corrected by anyone who knows better than me though
