I work near the corner of Southwark Bridge Road and Union Street.
On leave today so am enjoying the peace and quiet.
I started to use Union Street as it's an interesting part of town (art galleries, the Ragged School building, Pop Up Garden, Union Theatre etc) but do spend a lot of time dodging Boris (and many other) bikes!
Just to add that I'm very careful about avoiding cycle paths and always look out when I have to cross one so hopefully I don't fall into the category of dopey pedestrian. :-)
The latest cyclist to use the pavement to overtake did so when that stretch of Union St was very clear - he was impatient to get past another cyclist who I thought was already going at a fair speed, but the overtaking cyclist really bombed along. I suppose you get speed freaks in all forms of transport. Trouble is this fella got far too close to me and knocked my bag as he whizzed past. The issue for me is cyclists using the pavement, I don't have any strong opinions about licencing at this stage.