There's an interesting bit of road to observe the average London driver on. Trinity Road which runs south from Wandsworth bridge. Starts out as a three lane dual carriageway up a fairly steep hill. At the traffic lights, a fourth lane is added for right turn, with the rest of that lane marked as an island so not for use, so only two lanes for straight on.
Across the lights a 24-7 bus lane starts. A few hundred yards later the whole lot turns into a single lane two way road, so ignoring the bus lane two lanes merge to one.
Now as everyone will have noticed, the average London driver never uses the nearside of the road. Perhaps their steering is too heavy to pull out past the odd parked car, etc. So most who don't know the road start out in L3. Then get blocked by a slow moving vehicle, so undertake via L2 and go back to L3. At the top of the hill they'll then usually revert to L2 when they see L3 blocked by traffic waiting to turn right. Stopped at the lights in L2 they'll see the traffic queuing ahead to merge into one lane. So when the lights change want to drive straight across into what is now LI because of the bus lane. Leaving nowhere for the traffic in L1 to go. So although they habitually drive down the inside, they want to join a queue waiting to merge early, and in the inside lane for once. And then get very upset when traffic from L2 wants to merge where the road markings tell you to.
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