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In that case avoiding the stop line by using the footway and putting your bike back on the road just after the stop line then riding on through the junction may then be considered under the offences relating to "ride recklessly on a road or in a dangerous, careless or inconsiderate manner" (the actual riding through the junction, not the bypassing of the stop line).
This is more or less what I did. It is a horrendous right turn with bus and HGV traffic in both directions and no filter lane. You get treated to on-coming traffic coming right at you having swerved out to pass the left-turning traffic going into Heygate St from the north, and you get passed very close by on the inside by traffic continuing on to Elephant from the south.
It felt safer and more sensible all round just to use the red light as an opportunity to get off and use the crossings.
Even more sensible will be using a route that avoids having to make this particular right turn...
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Yeah each part of the day has its own unique character doesn't it! I do weekday mornings so sometimes it feels like I am caught in a loop of increasingly deranged demands which inevitably descends into the monosyllabic rantings of a lunatic:
"Get dressed! Do you need your PE kit today? Why aren't you dressed? Why are your underpants behind the sofa? Stop fighting each other! Put your shoes on! Why is that in your mouth?! Have you brushed your teeth? Have you brushed your hair? I need to get your water bottle - go and wait by the front door! It's time for school! Shoes! Teeth! Hair! Bottle! Pants! Door! School!"
Someone pointed me in the direction of these this morning. Most days it's all good though, and I remember to pack my own under-garments more often than not, including today.
Back on topic, I shall try out Portland St on the way home tonight. It will take me more SE than I really need to go, but it the result is nicer than what I've been doing it ought to be worth it.
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You cunt.
I think my five-year-old had similar feelings this morning...
Have just looked at the map properly and realised I have been doing it wrong anyway - Manor Pl -> Browning St -> Wadding St -> Balfour St tomorrow.
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This morning I left the house in a foul mood after a particularly attritional skirmish in the continuing Battle Of Leaving The House On Time With Two Small Children. This may or may not have contributed to my obnoxiousness when a policeman leaned out of his car window and asked if I had gone through a red at the junction of Walworth Road and Heygate Street.
I (not so) politely informed him that I had dismounted and used the pedestrian crossing, which I assume I am entitled to do. Making that right turn (into Heygate) whilst remaining on my bike is not an experience I enjoy and I need to find a better route like the one suggested a few pages back...
Rest of commute was dry and fine.
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That sounds good.
Burgess Park/OKR feels like it would be a bit out of my way, but I'm starting to come round to the view that a more interesting route with less Walworth Road/Heygate Street building site might well be worth a few minutes' of my day! -
Larkhall is a nasty rat run if I trust what I'm told at meetings.
I commute from Battersea to Bermondsey Street and I've just started using the Turret Grove -> Lansdowne Way bit of Cycle Network Route 3 as a way of avoiding Wandsworth Road, and I like it. I probably go down Larkhall a bit later than most (usually around 9.15), and I barely see another vehicle until the car park that is Lansdowne Way. There are some absolutely mental speed bumps on Turret Grove though.
I haven't found a way of completely eliminating CS7 around Oval, but I have successfully ditched Elephant & Castle now.
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Assuming by "bolt on" you mean you have eyelets front and rear, you can get a set of 700c SKS chromo-plastics from Ribble for £27 with mudflaps here or even cheaper without.
Evans will price match the one they have (no mudflaps) if you'd rather pick up in store.
I don't know if they are the best but they certainly work. I had them on my Equilibrium and now on my Ribble commuter.
Bit of a faff to get them on an aligned properly but once done it's been pretty much fit and forget for me.
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Having never seen such a thing before, on this morning's commute, I saw two chopped-off-drop handlebar set-ups.
Number one (E&C) was set up like a regular road bike, with the only custom bit being that the drops appeared to have been lopped just after the Campag shifters. A sort of DIY bullhorn bar I guess.
Number two (Borough) was way weirder, being what looked like a former drop bar mounted directly onto a set of aero extensions in order to create an upwardly curved bar, then chopped off after the vertical section, with some old-school Shimano (600?) shifters mounted high up on the vertical bit. It looked completely custom to me - the product of someone who is happy machining their own hardware.
Question being.... Why??
Excellent line of questioning! Do you keep a note of these things?
I've tried to keep a few in Evernote (3 yr old - "Are people meat, Daddy?") but inevitably I forget the best ones.
Maybe we should start a thread over in Members Only.
In commuting news, I am a big fan of Brandon/Portland St. I managed to cut out the A3 almost entirely by going along Vassall/Caldwell St in my quest for SW11.