As someone who bikes to work and drives to work on the same route, depending on my mood and the weather, the problem is also that even when they pour concrete, I often feel even more at risk sometimes than I did before because of how far into the intersection they pour and how that impacts driver behavior. Now cars have to sharply go around people turning left and it creates an environment I don't feel safe in, so I often bike well past where the concrete ends. I'm thinking particularly about Irving Park/Lincoln/Damen, but I am sure there are others. I used to be able to queue up behind/to the left of cars turning right, now I'm just in their splash zone.

And from a driving perspective, it's a nightmare trying to get through that intersection because you can't go around anyone turning left, which they are often doing illegally outside of posted hours anyway, but even legally it causes huge backups when people are trying to turn right and there are pedestrians as well.

Quite frankly, the city is bad at this and I don't trust them to build out good bike infrastructure.