Shek's Footprint

I successfully achieved my multi modal transport to First Fridays at Five Points. The fourteen mile trip was accomplished one mile on the bike to the bus stop, about 10 miles to Downtown and then a further three miles on the bike to Five Points.

Mine was the only bike on the bus and I shared the trip with four other passengers. I reached Five Points by 7:30 PM after leaving my apartment at 6 PM. Therefore, it took the same amount of time if I would have ridden my bike all the way to Five Points. The journey was fairly friction free except of course the part where I rode on the service road to the bus stop. That one mile stretch was nothing out of the ordinary. Four to five honks and yells all because they had to wait ten seconds to find a gap in oncoming traffic and overtake me.

The verdict is I would do it again only if I felt like not riding my bike. The bus did not save me any extra time. Riding 14 miles is a good work out. I also would not use the JTA if I do not have a ride back from my destination. The Dutch bike in the picture above is the only one that fits on a bus bike rack and is not fit for a 14 mile return journey. Further, the bus was clean and had security cameras inside it. There was a high level of social safety.