The city, the famous square mile, where money is made but the taxes ain’t paid. The biggest casino in London, just across from the council estate in which I live, this type of financial and social disparity could only exist in a place like London. For all I could say which is wrong with the city and the bankers who operate in it, this still isn’t the cause for my discomfort. I cycle a lot to school and this means having to go onto the Farringdon road and even though I’m only scraping the edges of the city, the oppressive, imploding nature of a flock of people aimlessly wandering in front of you while cycling down the road is very annoying. To isolate this just to the square mile would be doing London an injustice, cycling anywhere in this place is dangerous: you have the none existent road system in the west end to all the little annoying humps when cycling through Islington. There is something utterly annoying about a person who will probably be conning me into a student loan in a couple of years trying to take a little short cut through my path to get their next fix, leaving it to me to have to share some expletives and nearly swerve in front of a bus. Mind you it’s one hell of an excuse for being late for school.

They say the British have a good sense of humour and one of our key tools is irony, so while building the new cycle superhighway through the Farringdon road to make cycling safer, they manage to make the lights not work and give the traffic the decision to go or not. For the policies that I disagree with Boris Johnson on, this renovation of the cycle system in London is brilliant and for all of the videos of him going into tackles like Lee Cattermole on children half my age, he has actually done something useful. This isn’t some sort of magic wand which will fix all the tensions between drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, but hopefully the fella thinking of walking in front of me will be able to see the different coloured road and massive bike sign. Maybe they could just think to themselves; this doesn’t have white and black stripes, there are no bumps to indicate a crossing or there isn’t a set of traffic lights and finally, come to the conclusion not to cross at this point- making my whole journey a much more pleasant experience. After all this complaining some would think that I should suggest some ideas how to improve this whole situation, I mean we could move the city out into places such as Barnet like what they’re doing with all the working class Londoners, but how could one imagine doing such a horrible thing to someone who is getting millions in banker bonuses, the atrocity of the thought my makes my stomach turn. Could put a fence around the road so that people can’t actually walk out onto the road but buses and taxis won’t be able to pick up their passengers.

There is clearly no definitive solution to this problem, but something needs to be done or I’m going to have a worst crash in the city since 2008. A great example of this change is Amsterdam, a city where cars used to be the normality and cycling was the same situation in London, this wasn’t just a change of road layout, this was a change of ideology. Now the cyclists have the rights on the road, making drivers think twice before taking risks which could affect a cyclist.