rinserepeat
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The Emerald Necklace route is badly screwed up in a few spots and therefore a lot trickier than anything at Forest Hills (IMO), but you're right, the Casey Bridge project is supposed to fix that problem.
Between the pond and the BU bridge it's really just the Route 9 crossing (which will be fixed in the next year or two) and that weird stretch along Brookline Ave (dismount at the stairs at longwood and ride up carlton toward the BU bridge - the way back requires going the wrong way on a one-way street for a block, but brookline is going to put in a contra-flow lane there this year). During rush hour there's a critical mass of cyclists, so it's not as tricky as you might think - but you have to be experienced to do a left off of Brookline Ave.
Forest hills is moving with large trucks, buses, double parking, taxis, really bad pavement conditions, jaywalking pedestrians, badly timed lights, poor visibility (due to bridge) - on fading sharrows. it's dangerous. safest option is to ride through the bus terminal, but you still have that harrowing stretch between ukraine and the terminal.