Nod to the piece of ^&* intersection at the base of Murray appreciated. Go through that every day with the train. The whole thing needs to be blown up and redone, but in the meantime, some lane markings coming down Pocusset would be nice.

People don’t know what lane they’re supposed to be in going straight (the left lane, per my understanding), and the result is that on the train, so we’re not squeezed out, we ride RIGHT tire track in the left lane and I have my eldest signalling right. It’s reasonably informative in the sense that we do ride to the right letting people pass up the first (generally pretty empty) block of Forward, but it might be working just be creating uncertainty and fear about what it is we are doing. In any case, my experience is that it works, and no other strategy does. That is, all other strategies sometimes yield people trying to squeeze by us dangerously to go straight while we’re still in the intersection.

Two worthy of mention since they’re official detours with the greenfield bridge out:

https://t.e2ma.net/webview/1w6pi/fdbc76f8336cbc665271204cfa75d73b

Beechwood Blvd westbound (follow the to monroeville parkway signs out of squirrel hill). You get a very short distance to get into into the left lane, a brief rise, and then a merge. If you fail to get into the left lane, you’re on your way to the parkway with no way to turn around. If you fail the merge you go into a concrete island and some road signs. Traffic is impatient.

Panther Hollow Rd eastbound. This should be an intersection, but it’s a ^&*ing interchange and the cycletrack leaves you in a bad merge position with no time to get over. You then have a delightful merge going uphill on a speedway with folks trying to cheat squirrel hill tunnel backups. Westbound is more absurd given the speed and wrong side orientation if you’re wedded to the cycletrack, but you can at least continue in lane and then as speed dissipates, on the shoulder safely. Again returning to eastbound, but coming from the blvd… it’s true you don’t have the merge, but you have a road bending around to the right through the interchange area somewhat blind and drivers speed like hell through there.