RIDE LONDON 100, 4 AUG 2013.

Brief vid of portion of RIDE where racers turned westward on NORTHUMBERLAND AVE; passing the former location of a bike hire stall which used to occupy the space along the kerbside; passing a couple of traffic islands where two of three bollards had been damaged or removed and only a third remained; on these two bollard positions the City had placed foldable traffic signs facing the racers; these temporary bollards were weighed down with sandbags.

Note that there is a another bike stall near the Corinthia Hotel at WHITEHALL PLACE and it remains to this day; and another bike stall nearby at CRAVEN STREET and it also remains in place today; both of these were in present on 4 AUG 2013 but may not have been only partially occupied due to the road race that SUNDAY. Also note the marquee of the Playhouse Theatre which featured SPAMALOT; that musical played there from 14 NOV 2012 to 12 APR 2013. The bollards positions and the missing kerbside bike stall both match the London Pics of the scene; the lights of the marquee roughly match a few reflections on passing vehicles that can be seen in those pics.

Earliest pictorial evidence of missing bike stall, 4 AUG 2013. Bollards/islands closely resemble both the London pics of this scene and the SV images of MAY 2012 AND MAY 2014. In the 2012 SV images, one of the bollards, on the east island, appears to have been recenty damaged and/or cut off its legs; it can be seen resting beside an orange pylon over its former position. In the 2014 SV images, a makeshift memorial commemorated the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident at this location.