It may sound obvious or dumb but there's a tactic that helped me which didn't occur to me for months.

I have about a half mile on a road like that, narrow with high speeds and two lanes each direction. Since you encounter two such roads in only two miles, it may be similarly short but hairy. Anyway, instead of following with traffic on the road I simply wait at the light at a right turn entering the road! I stay out of the way while waiting so that right turners from behind can go around, and only go when the cross traffic has red - I can get the whole half mile to my turnoff ahead of traffic. Even going straight through (instead of turning right onto the road) you could do the same thing by going through the intersection and simply stopping at the cross street at the right turn position.

Though to be honest I don't do that when riding a couple of miles on that street; I ride with traffic and they go around me. But always, when I enter it on the right I just wait for the red even if it's clear.