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Closed access off Parliament Square to Victoria Street northbound, for the pavement widening works outside Westminster Abbey, was really not helping this morning. Lots of pedestrians everywhere outside Waterloo, so I walked bike down to the road and then got on, rather than coasting down the hill. Boris Bike racks were nearly empty at 07:50.
Main traffic lane on Westminster Bridge was solid, probably back to the St Thomas's Hospital lights at least. Thank god for the bus lane. If the roadworks hadn't been on Parliament Square, wouldn't have been much worse than normal.
Birdcage Walk northbound was okay as no commercial vehicles allowed anyway (I usually go down Tothill Street and by St James Park station), but southbound was one long queue of cars and taxis all the way back to Buckingham Palace.
All in all not really that bad, but then I am in leafy SW1, I imagine it might be worse in the City.