Numpties on foot...

[Batch]

Fenchurch Street is like a cheap video game, absurd

Fenchurch St (The end of my ride in and the start of my ride home) somehow manages to be both weirdly funny and terrifying at the same time. Trucks, taxis, cabs, peds, buses and cyclists all trying to get through with peds blindly wandering inbetween.

I find the intersection of Fenchurch/Gracechurch a doozie as well. Turning left in Gracechurch the peds seem to think that red means go. There's always one that starts the charge and the others follow like sheep without looking.

 

[trsleigh]

I was cycling ( on the Brompton ) through Southall recently. While passing ( on the right ) a long line of stationary traffic, ie normal for Southall, a youngish local ran straight into the side of me. No apology, he told me to look where I was going. I begged to differ and a lengthly chat about mothers, breeding, anatomy etc. followed.
Finally he crossed over to the other side of the road, while I waited for the traffic lights to go green, I felt that the exchange would be nicely topped off with a final "dickhead"....Blimey, that hit the spot. He turned into one of those ranters you sometimes see wandering around, ranting & raving then threatening to knife me.
I decided to maintain a discrete silence while all this was going on and eventually he really spoilt my day by announcing he wouldn't knife me as I was an old man, bloody cheek, only 58 last b'day.
Never a dull moment in London.

 

[purplepolly]

Oh, my mate AlexB carries a tinkling bell - this tinkles all the time and seems to be a good way to get pedestrians to pay more attention.

well some motorists seem to think think cyclists are about as socially acceptable as lepers, so why not go all the way...