Incidentally at that corner I see the ghost bike marking the poor guy
killed there recently has been moved - and I see now this is because the
council is reportedly going to redesign this dangerous junction. But I
can't see how as there just isn't much space.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread64141.html

E.

As you mention that, I always had a plan in my head that they could have
helped out Dalston Junction tremendously by removing the solicitor's
office on the NW corner of the junction and using the space behind it to
expand the junction - while it might not have been "safer" for cyclists
(or maybe it could be!) it would have surely helped out the congestion at
that corner which gets pretty bunged up with buses. Though once they
built new apartments behind the solicitor's office in the space, there
seems zero chance of it happening. (I appreciate that there wasn't any
chance anyway, but *I* thought it would be a great idea....!)

I also hoped that when they knocked down the shops at Graham Road/Mare
St, they were going to widen the junction, but they just built more
ridiculously small shops (and flats) on the same spot.