8am and I was at the corner of Archway Road and Shepherds Hill, having organised a meeting with Transport for London officers. It’s a terrible junction. The Green Man phase just about allows me (fit and relatively able) to leg it diagonally across . Absolutely no chance of doing it properly one road at a time. And if you are old, disabled or with children or buggies – no chance!

At least the TfL officers admitted it was a sub-standard junction and it will be dealt with now by upgrading the electronics and adding a few seconds to the all green phase.

And as for those badly behaved motorists who block the yellow junction every phase – after next autumn they will get done by the camera which already watches the junction, but until the new legislation has not been able to issue tickets. That will start happening around October – so hopefully this particular junction will be much better.