45F, clammy.

So, this morning, I was going to turn left onto Kinwood from the turn lane on Pacific (see below), but there were 8 cars stacked up waiting to turn left. Rather than split the lane and go to the front (because every other car in line is too tentative to go into the intersection and wait for an opening for their own left turn, they stay hiding behind the stop line), or wait in line for several light cycles, I just went to the x-walk across Pacific, pushed the button, and beat 5 of those cars onto Kinwood, as well as the additional ones that stacked up behind the first 8.

It is beyond me why so many cars want to take Kinwood from Pacific to the next road up. The city spent millions and something like 18 months making the next road to the west a 4 lane autobahn where people can safely, if not legally, drive 50 (10 over the speed limit), but they prefer bombing down the 2 lane Kinwood at 40mph (15 over)