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Colin Rosenstiel · May 25th 05, 11:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Tom Anderson) wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

I dive off under Camden Town Hall to avoid the issue of course. Why
do these problems only seem to arise with bendies and not with
conventional length buses?

The first time i read this, i thought 'under' was some sort of
metaphor, but today, having ridden past it over one million times, i
noticed that there actually is a route literally _underneath_ the town
hall!

I was going to ask you about your route here, since all the early turns
off Euston Road i've tried land me in this bizarre
one-way/no-entry/dead-end system in the corner of the Gray's Inn and
Euston roads, and if i follow the traffic signs, i invariably end up
back on one of those roads, and this in square one. However, i tried
following my nose, going into a no-entry street (naughty, i know, but
the law is an ass and a half in this particular case) and then down a
dead-end lane, and quickly found myself on Judd street, exactly where i
wanted to be. I shall be experimentally prodding this route a bit more
over the next week or so!

No need to go the wrong way down one way streets. You can cycle under the
building (I reckon as it's a footway not adjacent to a carriageway where
it's not illegal to cycle), then straight ahead past the school and right
into Hastings Street, then left into Judd Street. Put in a dropped kerb on
Euston Road and mark a cycle lane across the pavement and you'd actually
have a useful cycle facility to match one (until the CTRL works started)
in the reverse direction via Cromer St and Argyle St.

Now, what happened to Camden Council cycling officers? They still haven't
reacted to my web site response about the missing cycle lane in
Shaftesbury Avenue by High Holborn which has a sign but no paint on the
road.

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Colin Rosenstiel