>>I hope you didn't get any points either?
No, happily no threat of points. Which is what makes the whole thing rather silly. Because £130 is a huge sum (£195 if you miss the early payment discount) and it feels as though it should have been accompanied with points. If it's not naughty enough for points then it's a lot of money. Enough for a drunk-driving fine (for the low paid).
The joys of TFL penalties which are higher than everybody else's. People get smaller fines for drunk driving.
Sherlock>>Count yourself lucky you did not kill a cyclist while you were turning left!
That's a bit much, Sherlock. No more risk at that junction than at any other one (in London)! There are many, many, much more dangerous places in London to turn cyclists into raspberry jam.
Cliff Pope>> you'd have to pull out first to avoid cutting across the short length of cycle lane.
No, there's no(t really a) cycle lane there. Just some blue paint on the road. Those 'cycle superhighways' are very misleading; cyclists think they are their own territory but in the absence of a solid white line they are just blue paint on the road.
CGN>>Can't say that the road is particularly cluttered with signs either.
"visual road noise" was my wording, and there I refer to the blue paint on the road which is all over the place and quite hard work to work out - hence the aerial view I posted rather than the street-view view that people preferred. The traffic lights were on green so I never looked at them, but I did look at the blue paint to work out that it was not an uncrossable cycle lane.
BBD>> it's the angle of the curb which would be rounded off for left-turning vehicles.
It is, though, as once round the bend the inside lane appears to be intended for cycles. An odd, disembodied painted bicycle on the road indicates. This makes it very easy for a car to turn that corner. I do, of course, agree that it's not that inviting, but London has many sharp turns like that.
Pah, anyway. Not expecting sympathy, pure stupidity on my part.
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