tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post7851964627044014766..comments2024-03-19T10:54:26.547+00:00Comments on Real cycling: Strange ways in Tower Hamlets: Horseferry Rd contraflowRob Ainsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545429147297468874noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-23190112048353076012010-06-03T00:05:24.781+01:002010-06-03T00:05:24.781+01:00I live in one of the flats directly opposite your ...I live in one of the flats directly opposite your last photo, my balcony overlooks where the new contraflow cycle lane crosses the junction on Horseferry Road with Branch Road (traffic heading at speed south from Commercial Road). There are NO signs warning motor traffic of the cycle contraflow crossing their path (the 'wrong' way) at the T junction. In the 6 months this scheme has been running I have witnessed at least 3 bike vs car accidents, and so many near misses I have given up counting. Cars that do not know the area have no idea there are bikes crossing their path (left turn only, so they assume they only need to look right, and miss bikes approaching from the left).<br /><br />If you travel this route, beware!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-91663764519798070552010-02-26T15:01:57.067+00:002010-02-26T15:01:57.067+00:00This is the way we like to do things in Tower Haml...This is the way we like to do things in Tower Hamlets - this, and carefully orchestrated gang violence and knife crime help to keep our rents cheap and the area from being over sanitised by infiltrating West Londoners. You've got to have some true anarchic principals to survive a traffic scheme like that, whereas all you 'outsiders' will just follow the signs round and round before you disappear down the tunnel and pop up on the other side far away from us.<br /><br />Don't you see the genius in our plan?!ibikelondonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06978714126105951294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-81722994199680896742010-02-23T07:28:08.512+00:002010-02-23T07:28:08.512+00:00@Betty... but of course. The Glamour Ride is an ex...@Betty... but of course. The Glamour Ride is an excellent thing and I'm totally in favour of it, as I hope my previous posts on it make reasonably clear. Ditto our chums in Tower Hamlets Wheelers. You can tell by the tone of voice on my face.Rob Ainsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15545429147297468874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-74799047710624257422010-02-23T01:48:51.986+00:002010-02-23T01:48:51.986+00:00The secret was in the cyclist contra-contraflow pa...The secret was in the cyclist contra-contraflow part, hinting at the possibility of a cyclist colliding with an anti-cyclist, which at high enough energy can result in a microscopic black hole of carbon fiber, from which nothing but hyper-particles called Contadorinos can escape.John Romeo Alphahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01289456379789026152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-68226350962677982010-02-23T01:44:47.479+00:002010-02-23T01:44:47.479+00:00"Mind you, this is Tower Hamlets, home of the..."Mind you, this is Tower Hamlets, home of the Glamour Ride: they sometimes do have strange ways here..."<br /><br />Location aside, in no way can a connection be made between the Glamour Ride and another flawed road scheme produced by LBTH transport planners. For starters:<br />- the organisers of the Glamour Ride ride bikes<br />- the organisers of the Glamour Ride are untrained volunteers<br />- the organisers of the Glamour Ride are able to plan a p*ss up in a brewery (well in a park at the end of the Glamour Ride)Bettyhttp://www.glamour-ride.org.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-68038894901697521442010-02-22T15:57:30.987+00:002010-02-22T15:57:30.987+00:00Don't you all see what this is? Rob gives a cl...Don't you all see what this is? Rob gives a clue early on in his post. This is nothing less than the world's first scientific experiment in revealing the constituent sub-atomic particles of cyclists. Two cyclists colliding should produce quark cyclists - at least they won't be able to ride normally after colliding like that. A cyclist colliding with a car should theoretically produced a boson (or at least prove that there are 'bozo' drivers). The whole set-up is designed to produce something quite surreal, and may in fact create, even for a millionth of a second, conditions similar to that in Copenhagen. Have you never heard of the the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, formulated at the Niels Bohr institute in Copenhagen? It states that certain pairs of (sub-atomic) physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known at the same time. Look at that junction! If that doesn't prove the uncertainty principle, nothing does. Maybe.<br /><br />No Ladies and Gentlemen what you are witnessing is nothing less than the frontiers of knowledge being pushed to the limits. Certainly, someone's limits will be pushed sooner or later...Philip Loyhttp://twitter.com/philiploynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-2957121428713372972010-02-22T14:49:16.732+00:002010-02-22T14:49:16.732+00:00I imagine they've done it this way because the...I imagine they've done it this way because there's car parking on the other side of the road...still doesn't make much sense though. Why not move the parking bays to the other side of the road? Well, for 2 very good reasons: 1. it'd cost money, and 2. the motorists might get very upset at having to cross the road.aaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11142330825237376723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-10589524365560142722010-02-22T14:14:45.903+00:002010-02-22T14:14:45.903+00:00Well, I know he plays footy on Hackney Marshes. I ...Well, I know he plays footy on Hackney Marshes. I met him once at a college bash. Seemed quite normal for a mathematician. Hardly bonkers at all.Rob Ainsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15545429147297468874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-32418400794814973222010-02-22T13:16:19.488+00:002010-02-22T13:16:19.488+00:00Pretty sure Marcus du Sautoy lives in the Limehous...Pretty sure Marcus du Sautoy lives in the Limehouse area - or did until he got the Oxford job.Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-16176483306505789222010-02-22T11:06:13.267+00:002010-02-22T11:06:13.267+00:00@Tom... Of course you're right, pic 2 is Limeh...@Tom... Of course you're right, pic 2 is Limehouse Link tunnel, not the Rotherhithe, as the post originally said. The entrance to the Rotherhithe is round the corner. I've amended the post - thanks.Rob Ainsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15545429147297468874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-29489466783438106292010-02-22T10:35:31.937+00:002010-02-22T10:35:31.937+00:00I'm gobsmacked by how bonkers that is. They re...I'm gobsmacked by how bonkers that is. They really do make it up as they go along, don't they?Mikehttp://www.chthonicionic.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-58442945755606972552010-02-22T10:15:10.937+00:002010-02-22T10:15:10.937+00:00That is absolutely bonkers on so many levels. Woul...That is absolutely bonkers on so many levels. Wouldn't the 'normal' cycle contraflow solution have been to make Narrow Street two-way, so cyclists could take the shortest route? And what could be the possible reason for jeopardising safety and confounding expectations by running the contraflow on the wrong side of the road? The only thing I can think is that this could be a misguided attempt to make the link to Cable Street shown in http://osm.org/go/euu6hJ4Nc-?layers=00B0FTF easier, but I can't see any engineering to suggest this (yet) on your picture 5.<br /><br />By the way, I think that's the Limehouse Link tunnel portal in pic 2, not the Rotherhithe.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06095367398000872415noreply@blogger.com