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5th Av N, westbound, was just repainted approaching 9th St and passing it; the lanes are "Left only", "Ahead only", and "Ahead/Right Turn".

Alas, the portion of 5th Av on the west side of 9th St *only has one forward lane*; the part that used to be a second ahead lane has been realigned into a moved bicycle lane, as part of the move of the St Anthony's ER entrance.

Because of this, straight-thru traffic is improperly taking that right line, and then discovering that it has nowhere to go on the other side of the intersection.

I have seen no accidents yet (this is on my way home from work downtown, so I pass it frequently with decent traffic flows), but I have seen many near misses -- I myself did not realize that it had been changed the first time I went through it; luckily, I got stopped by the traffic signal.

But there is a full-speed merge or pedestrian accident just *waiting* to happen here, and the WB 5th approach right lane *needs to be repainted promptly*.

This is a life safety issue; I'll be monitoring the speed of response to it. Apologies for reporting it on a Friday afternoon...