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Maybe bringing the threads into one place could crystallise some common things that are wrong with all of these particular junctions.
I've seen flowers a few times too many on the junctions of Clerkenwell Rd and Goswell Rd and St Johns St. My feeling in both cases is that if cyclists turn right offside to offside, to use car terms, they can't see if a car is squeezing up on the inside of one of the cars across them, and so go when they think it's safe when it's not. Equally cars go way too fast when squeezing as they're often trying to beat the lights. I suspect that's not a flaw unique to those two junctions, I just ride them a lot.
Anyway - can we come up with relatively general ways to describe the ways in which we think roads are dangerous? Maybe someone from TFL can then take our feedback and turn it into decent road design.