taxi rank at bermondsey rd and tooley st junction

Hi

Since the redevelopment of London bridge station and the moving of the taxi ran

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k to tooley st there has been an ongoing problem with taxis waiting for a place in the rank by stacking up behind the junction and people familiar with the area will know this is both a red route and a cycle lane.

I occasionally see the police moving the taxis on but have also seen the police drive straight past it and do nothing.

I'm not opposed to them making their living and if this didn't cause problems I'd not really care but in the past few months I've seen a cyclist knocked off at that junction, nearly been knocked off twice myself before today and then was almost done again today by a taxi u turning in front of me. I've also had numerous arguments when politely trying to explain that it's dangerous for them to park like this.

The problem is that as it's a busy road any traffic gets pushed over and consequently the cycle lane in the opposite direction (towards tower bridge) gets regularly encroached upon upon buses and lorries, not really at any fault of theirs.

I spoke to a police today and he said he reports the problem regularly to both his superiors and tfl and is himself amazed that nothing has been done about it in all this time and his suggestion was that if lots of people tweeted tfl about it then it might get things moving.

I'm not a member of twitter but I'm gonna sign up so I can do this and it would be good if other people could to.

Thanks for reading. Hopefully I put this post in the right place.

Andy

I'm a regular on that road as I work at More London. Have had a few near misses from some taxi drivers at that point and further along in front of the station where they pick up/drop off passengers. I hadn't thought of tweeting TFL about it though. Good idea.

Strangely enough I was just walking past this junction.

That whole stretch of cycle lane - east or westbound - has never been to my liking. The westbound one next to the taxi rank leads you right into an uncomfortable squeeze between heavy traffic and taxis pulling out, so I usually just ride in primary along there.

someone tweet about it and post a link on here, then get others to retweet it

I think you mean the Bermondsey Street junction. I find people turning right out of battle bridge lane (particularly large lorries) in front of the taxi rank more dangerous than the taxis.