"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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Now, is Copenhagen Street usable westbound? If so, that looks like it
might be a quicker way from Caledonian Road to York Way than Market Road.

AFAIK yes. Personally I'd avoid this road as IIRC it's a bit of a narrow,
heavily-used, residential-type, road. Also, the section of Cally Road
through Barnsbury can be quite congested and full of parked cars. Note that
you would *have* to use Copenhagen Street whilst York Way remains closed for
the CTRL works (due to finish soon IIRC).


If there were convenient access points, the canal would also be a handy
route from Caledonian Road to Goods Way.

Can't help with that!



And rather than Goods Way - Pancras Rd - Euston Rd - Judd St, how about
Goods Way - Midland Rd - Judd St? Providing there aren't one-way bits
there, that would deal with Euston Road by going straight over it, rather
than along it. This would be better for me, since i have an irrationally
great hatred of that road!

Midland Road is closed UFN as part of the CTRL works at St. Pancras. I've no
idea when (if?) it's going to re-open, but certainly it doesn't look as if
it's going to do so soon.


For a northbound journey you would have a problem of a banned-turn
turning right from Judd Street in to Euston Road, but I normally do this
on a daily basis with no problem.
Christ, is that banned as well? I hadn't noticed that one either!

I've no idea why it's banned. It's possibly a remnant of when Midland Road
was busier than it is now, or else it could be to discourage traffic from
using Judd Street as a route to the north. I always turn right there anyway,
but you do have to watch out for the occasional CTRL traffic coming towards
you or turning left. The other alternative is to go SA and immediately
u-turn beyond the lights (perfectly legal), but you'll miss the phase and
have to wait a long time (best thing then is to carry the bike a few feet
round the corner and re-mount!).


Funnily enough, i don't mind the actual junction all that much: the
traffic's slow enough that i can get where i want to go quite easily.

Oh, I try to avoid King's Cross at all possible, even though for my journey
Aldwych-KX via Gray's Inn Road would nominally be more direct. It's not that
it's particularly dangerous, but I find there's always cars, and
particularly buses, blocking the road, and it just seems to take ages to get
through the area.


DS