This is the approach to the junction between Higher Bridge Street and Topp Way in Bolton.
It is a tricky junction because it is very busy, it involves climbing a fairly steep hill on the approach, it has a very narrow, inadequate “cycle lane” leading up to it, and the exit side of the junction is really not wide enough for motor vehicles to pass cyclists safely.
So, if I can, I try to take the centre of the lane (“primary position”) before the junction and hold it until I am past the narrow part after the junction:
Sometimes, it is difficult to get into the primary position because of the traffic, and that’s when bad things happen: