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Don't worry, I'm cracking a little smile too.

Fuck helping, I wish you had taken a picture.

In other news, Negley eats car tires too... unsurprising

Photos or it didn't happen!

I crack many smiles when people pass me with so much speed and intent only for me to pull up next to them at the very next red light or stop sign. It's the little things...

that is funny. i will admit it.. i LOLed

I wonder where she was going. People try to do that to me all the time, but then have to change back into the left lane because people are always parked like a block north of Negley in the right lane.

And speaking of pot holes, what the heck? Anybody else notice that Butler St got the nice black pavement treatment around the 62nd St bridge, yet Negley (from what I remember) sucks a million times worse than that stretch of Butler ever did. Same way I felt about Ellsworth and the Greenfield Ave chute intersection. They say the streets aren't arbitrarily paved, but it sure seems that way

Haha, I didn't think to take a picture but I did have a witness - a friend of mine was a few cars back and saw the whole thing. I thought it was only the back tire but he said they were both flat. If you saw a white Mercedes sitting there with the blinkers on sometime around 6:30, that was what happened... It was definitely bizarre.

Negley is pretty terrible all the way from 5th to Penn. I take the lane all the way through Shadyside because it's the only way to dodge the holes, but it's also pretty easy to keep up with traffic there. Where this happened, it's a bit uphill and I was trying to be nice by staying far to the right - even though the road is really rough. Still not good enough apparently.

I think that stretch of Butler may be a state route maintained by PennDOT (SR 2122). And Second Avenue is SR 885. So maybe PennDOT maintains them both? Negley and Ellsworth seem to be ordinary city streets, and presumably compete with all the other pothole-filled city streets for repaving.

Broken bottle, maybe? If so, she did you a favor, covering it up so you wouldn't run into it.

butler is SOOOO nice near the 62nd st bridge. i take that route instead of negley toward downtown most of the time. the lanes are nice and wide going inbound between the zoo and the 62nd st bridge. however, once i get to lawrenceville, i am still annoyed by that damn fauxhawk on the road. how does that happen exactly?

if only all of the streets could be freshly paved...

Butler got paved because it is the detour for the Route 28 project (Twenty-eight-a-geddon? Twenty-eight-ocalypse?) It was referenced in a P-G story yesterday. They also timed up some lights (what a novel concept!?) in the detour area and I think widening the intersection at 40th Street was part of it as well.

i am still annoyed by that damn fauxhawk on the road

HA HA HA

Asphalt Sleestak.

the fauxhawk happens because the road has a substandard foundation and overweight vehicles, that is, busses and heavy trucks. IMO, most Pittsburgh surface streets should be limited to vehicles weighing less than one ton per axle.

You mean the faux-hawk doesn't happen because the neighborhood isn't trying to look faux-punk?

thats just how hip l-ville is these days.

i assumed they were from streetcar tracks that were never removed. have i been spreading lies?

nope they are from 100% pure hipster spores emanating from the neighborhood. pretty soon the buildings will be rocking tight jeans and peloton caps will start showing up on the cars (kind of like the baseball hats on top of napa cars)

just wait till the streetlights start wearing american apparel v-necks!

All you hipsters track stand my fauxhawk

If I could have a super power, it would be the ability to cause vehicles that are driving inappropriately to have two flats.

You should have stopped and told the woman that you did it with your telekinetic powers. Give a mad scientist laugh and ride away.

@Mick, I dunno that that's going to work. I honked a guy over to the side of McKnight Road on Saturday who was riding on a flat tire, clueless to the fact.

I'd hold out for the ability to bike through the air, a la ET. Let 'em trafficize in rage on the ground, I'm up, up, and away.

Since you people clued me in to the sleestak, and this metrosexual/sleestak/gel fauxhawk is a hip look right now, I can barely walk down the street without laughing like I'm insane.

As if I could before.