Maybe I’m missing something here, but that’s not much use for me. There’s no measure here, that I know of, that indicates the road less traveled?

Am I reading into how he decided “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,” and really they were about the same so that he could later look back with a sign and _say_ he took the road less traveled by, and it had made all the difference?

Why does he look back with a sigh? Does he wish he had taken the other road?

Or is this really not about which road at all, so much as simply choosing a road, and _that_ is what is important?

Sorry, but, I’m not really sure I agree with your claim that he has some good advice, when it appears so shrouded in ambiguity.

This is a link to The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, who has some good advice for your “fork in the river”. . .