u/ileentotheleft

Eastbound had an older ticket taker who didn’t blink when I used my expired 10 trip, guessing he didn’t care. Used the one way ticket I purchased in Penn this morning in case the 10 trip wasn’t accepted for the westbound trip back to Penn. Track wasn’t announced this morning until less than 3 minutes before departure. Business as usual.

Aside from losing my streak due to zero neutrals on the UWS, I had a nearly perfect commute this morning. No playing whack-a-mole to find a bike. Instead of only posting to complain, I wanted to to highlight the perfect biking conditions: not too hot but still no need for a jacket, no wind, and an unprecedented green light run from 89th to 62nd on Columbus including no construction vehicles blocking the bike path in the mid 60s.

Though the bike lane portion of 9th Ave is paved to at least 34th, they’ve dug up the recently paved section of the road just to the right of the path in the 30s again.

FYI long stretch of 9th avenue (including bike lane) is without blacktop, very rough riding this morning. I didn’t see any sign at the start saying how far the unpaved segment went or when repaving would occur, but there were no work vehicles present. Not great for commuters. We have 8th & 10th as options for uptown. Anyone prefer 7th or 11th for that stretch?