u/EOAisheretosay

What is your favourite dangerous/dumb/bizarre traffic set up in London? Not talking about potholes or construction, but I want to hear about the most confusing signs, road paint, traffic lights, etc. that make driving dangerous around the city. I’ll go first with a few of my favourite examples from the downtown area.

1. King St. & Colbourne

• where traffic merges into one lane with very little heads up. I consistently see people almost get sideswiped here as cars drive straight through the intersection from the disappearing left turn lane.

2. One block down, King St. & Burwell

• the new bus shelter makes it impossible to see Eastbound traffic on King Street. You need to be fully across the pedestrian crossing to have a visual on traffic. Eventually, somebody here is going to get seriously hurt or worse. T-boned by an eastbound bus or car…. Or west bound bus.

3. Adelaide St. heading south past Central Ave

• once the underpass was built, whoever painted the roads certainly didn’t measure the lanes first. The curb lane narrows to less width than some vehicles. If you are driving there beside a bus, back off or it is pushing you into oncoming traffic.

So there, that kind of stuff.

Years ago when this section of Riverside Drive between Mount Pleasant Ave. and Woodward Ave. was redone, this confusing large concrete pad was put in. It has bollards on the ‘entrance way’ from the sidewalk but there is no way a car gets up there unless it hops the curb. I’ve never seen anything on it and am done wondering. Does anyone know what this was actually supposed to be for??? Was it built to be the next home of Santa’s workshop? A stage for Taddy So Baddy? A parking area for London’s rental scooter fleet? A planting area for metal trees? Is Farhi possibly behind this? I need to know!