bike lane kids lane whose lane?

Shadwell. School is out. Two 7 year old boys on pop scooters are scooting on the cycle superhighway on Cable Street, near the Limehouse end… Commuters on bikes are coming, see the boys, slow down and try and go around them. One boy jerks his scooter out in front of the bike and shouts ‘Raargh’ at the man, the bike wobbles around a bit and stops. The second boy shouts ‘Raargh’ and stays where he is, out of the cycle lane. All the other bikes coming have to slow down. Bold agitating for those so small. Another batch of commuters on bikes appear, the boys are on the other side of the street now and are still shouting, and waving their scooters. I wonder why? Are they pissed off? Bored? Just playing? Are they demanding, creating a connection with these people? Do they want to know who all these people are, whizzing through their area who weren’t there before? I walk 200 metres more and demolition of old flats is happening, I sit and watch the insides crumble, the paint from the walls that used to be people’s living rooms. There is something beautiful in watching the wrecking of a building, I’m not sure what but I could watch it all day. A favourite London sight. I wonder what’s going to go up in its place… More shaky overpriced housing???