In my opinion the whole ASL thing is academic whilst configurations like
this one exist.
Bad road markings are a whole different kettle of fish to passing throuh a FINAL stop line at red, so no hypocrisy on my part
Yes, I jumped the red light on the way to Pets at Home, if we are being technical. However if stopped I would certainly refuse to pay any spot fine and be willing to contest the issue in a court of law (since I stopped within the ASL to go straight ahead which has no legal point of entry). And any car drivers who don't like my "illegal behaviour" can sod of back to pepipoo.com and go back to discussing loopholes to get out of driving and parking offences through a mm of spacing on a signpost.
I use the road rather than the cycle path because {a} I want to go faster than 18mph and {b} I want to cross ONE set of traffic lights and not three